Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott Timeline

November, 29 1832: Born
1834: Family moves to Boston, Massachusetts
1840: Family moves to Concord, Massachusetts
1849: The Inheritance (Not published until 1997)
1854: Flower Fables published
1863: Hospital Sketches published
1866: Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (Written as A.M. Barnard) published
1866: A Long Fatal Love Chase (Written as A.M. Barnard, published in 1995)
1867: The Mysterious Key and What It Opened published
1868: Little Women published
1869: Part II of Little Women published
1871: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys published
1872: Work: A Story of Experience published
1875: Eight Cousins published
1886: Jo's Boys published
1888: A Garland for Girls published
1888: Died on March 6

Notable Louisa May Alcott Adaptations

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1918: Little Women
1933: Little Women
1949: Little Women
1949: An Old-Fashioned Girl
1994: Little Women
1997: The Inheritance
1998: Little Men
2005: Little Women Musical

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Guide Note

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known for her book Little Women, based on her life with her sisters Anna, Elizabeth and May. She wrote three books under the pseudonym A.B. Barnard.

Fast Facts

Born: November 29, 1832
Died: March 6, 1888
Birthplace: Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Literary Genre: Young Adult
Educated by her father
Never married
Was an abolitionist and Feminist
Worked as a teacher, governess and writer

Career

Louisa May Alcott was tutored by her father and helped by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller. She grew up poor and made a vow at an early age to get herself and her family out of poverty. She wrote her first novel in 1849, although it would not be published until 1997. Her first well received book was the semi-autobiographical Little Women, published in 1868.

Notable Works

The Inheritance (1849 - published in 1997)
Flower Fables (1854)
Hospital Sketches (1863)
The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864)
Moods (1865)
Morning-Glories and Other Stories (1867)
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867)
Little Women (1868)
Three Proverb Stories (1868)
Part Second of Little Women, also known as Good Wives (1869)
An Old Fashioned Girl (1870)
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872-1882)
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
Work: A Story of Experience (1872)
Eight Cousins (1875)
Beginning Again, Being a Continuation of Work (1875)
Silver Pitchers, and Independence: A Centennial Love Story (1876)
Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to Eight Cousins (1876)
Under the Lilacs (1878)
Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)
Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to Little Men (1886)
Lulu's Library (1889)
A Garland for Girls (1888)
Comic Tragedies (1893)

As A.M.Barnard

Behind a Mask (1866)
The Abbot's Ghost (1867)
A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866 - published in 1995)

Quotes

"I will do something by and by. Don't care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I'll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won't."

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