Research Paper On Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29,1832 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA. Louisa then had died on March 6,1888 in Boston MA. Louisa has three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Anna Alcott Pratt, and Elizabeth Sewall Alcott. Louisa was an american novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women in 1868, and its sequels Little Men in 1871, and Jo's Boys in 1886. Louisa was raised by transcendantalist parents Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England. Her family suffered severe financial diffculties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to recieve critical success for her writing in the 1860's . Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A.M Banard and under

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