...cott tl sources Moore and HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources Dappers. He established both the Temple School, in Boston, and the Concord School of Philosophy. Although he as a loving father, he as not very responsible or practical, so Louisas mother, Abigail May Alcott, filled the role of head of household. Just like Jo, the protagonist in her Little omen, Louisa had three sisters--one older Anna Bronson Alcott and to younger Elizabeth Lizzie Seall Alcott and Abba May Alcott. And, much like Jos sister Beth, Lizzie died at age 22 from complications of scarlet fever. But, unlike Jo, Louisa also had a little brother, ho died as an infant i HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources Dappers.Her riting CareerLouisa May Alcott as a versatile riter ho started at an early age. At the encouragement of her father, she kept a diary as a child--hich probably helped her to discover her love and talent for riting and surely provided ideas later for her various plots and characters. As a teenager, Louisa rote several plays, poems, and short stories. She achieved publication for the first time at age nineteen, ith a poem entitled Sunlight 1851, hich she rote under the pseudonym, Flora Fairfield i HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources Myerson and HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources Moores. The title of Ms. Alcotts first published short story as The Rival Painters A Tale of Rome 1852 i HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources Myerson and HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources Dappers, and her first published book as Floer Fables1854, a collection of short fairy-tale stories and poems hich she had originally created to entertain Ralph aldo Emersons daughter Ellen. Louisa May Alcott rote her first novel, The Inheritance, at age seventeen, but it ent unpublished for nearly 150 years until 1997, after to researchers Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy stumbled across the handritten manuscript in the Houghton Library at Harvard University i HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources Myersons. Of course, Ms. Alcott is best knon for a different novel, Little omen, hich she rote in to parts. The first volume, alternately titled Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, as published in 1868, and the second volume, Good ives, as published in 1869. Like Jo in Little omen, Louisa also rote many blood and thunder tales, hich ere published in popular periodicals of the day. She did not openly claim authorship for many of these Gothic thriller stories, hoever for some, she used the pseudonym, A. M. Barnard for others, she chose to remain completely anonymous. For a complete list of Louisa May Alcotts ritings, see my page entitled HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcottlmasrks.html Louisa May Alcott List of orks.Her Adult LifeLouisa May Alcotts career as not restricted to riting. Beginning in her late teens, she orked as a teacher for several years i HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources Moores and off-and-on as a seamstress i HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources MacDonalds. In December of 1862, at age 30, she traveled to ashington, DC, to serve as a Civil ar nurse at the Union Hotel Hospital in Georgeton. The folloing year, she re-rote her letters detailing that experience, to form Hospital Sketches, hich as published first serially and then as a book i HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources MacDonalds. And, in the inter of 186768, Ms. Alcott became the editor of Merrys Museum, a childrens magazine i HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources Dapper and HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources MacDonalds. Louisa Alcott also as an avid social reformer. Abolition, temperance, and educational reform ere among her chosen causes. But being a feminist at heart, she especially fought for omens rights, including suffrage. In fact, she as the first oman to register to vote in Concord i HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources MacDonald and HYPERLINK http.tetranet.netusersstolbertalcott tl sources Moores. Unlike Jo in her Little omen, Louisa May Alcott never married. She died at age 55 on March 6, 1888, to days after her father and is buried on Authors Ridge in Concords Sleepy Hollo Cemetery, ith her family. Nearby are the graves of her friends and mentors Ralph aldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hathorne, and Henry David Thoreau. INCLUDEPICTURE http.alcotteb.compicturegalleryimagesmidlouy.jpg t MERGEFORMATINET ...
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