Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Īlcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Louisa May Alcott ( / ˈ ɔː l k ə t, - k ɒ t/ November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts
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