![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1840, after several setbacks with the school, her family moved to a cottage on two acres along the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts. The family moved to Boston in 1844, where her father established an experimental school and joined the Transcendentalist Club with Emerson, Thoreau, and other authors of that ilk.ĭuring her girlhood and early womanhood, Alcott shared in her family's poverty and Transcendentalist ideals. She is best known for the novel Little Women, which she wrote in 1868.Īlcott was the daughter of noted Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May III, and though of New England parentage and residence, she was born in Germantown, now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist who was born on Novemand died on March 6, 1888. ![]()
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