Author

Louisa May Alcott

American novelist and abolitionist best known for Little Women (1868).

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Little Women, American literatureKnown for

Louisa May Alcott was both an abolitionist and a feminist. She is best known for Little Women (1868), a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Alcott, unlike Jo, never married: "... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man." She was an advocate of women's suffrage and was the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Massachusetts.

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Born1832 · Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA

Notable works Little WomenLittle MenJo's Boys

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.— Little Women (1868)