Louisa
May Alcott - writer
1832-1888
Louisa
May Alcott was
for years best known for her much-read children's literature,
-- Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys. Today the lurid
(for the 19th century) tales she penned to help support her family
can be found among best-selling paperbacks and on library shelves.
Her family counted among their friends notable figures such as
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
Alcott practiced her beliefs, working for the right of women to
vote, the temperance movement, and the abolition of slavery.
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Arla Ralston
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