Louisa May Alcott

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United States novelist LMA published during the later nineteenth century more than three hundred writings, including works for children, short stories, letters, poetry, novels, plays, sensation fiction, and journalism. Little Women, her best-known work, remains a classic among fiction for young adults.
Sepia head-and-shoulders photograph of Louisa May Alcott by Warren's Portraits, c. 1870. She looks pensively away from the camera, wearing a dark dress with two frills up the front, her wavy hair tied back in a bun at the nape of her neck.
Black and white, three-quarter length photo of Louisa May Alcott by J. Notman, c. 1865. She sits by a table covered with books and writing implements, slightly turned and seen in profile. She wears a dark dress with large bow at the neck; her hair is waved and pulled back in a bun.

Milestones

29 November 1832

LMA was born in Germantown near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on this day, which was also her father 's thirty-third birthday. She was the second of four girls.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
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1 October 1868

The first part of LMA 's semi-autobiographical novel, Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, was published and became an instant success; the second and final part appeared the following spring.
Alcott, Louisa May, and Madeleine B. Stern. The Journals of Louisa May Alcott. Editors Myerson, Joel and Daniel Shealy, Little, Brown.
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6 March 1888

LMA died; the cause given at the time was apoplexy but it was likely intestinal cancer that brought about her death at fifty-five.
Stern, Madeleine B., and Louisa May Alcott. “Introduction”. The Journals of Louisa May Alcott, edited by Joel Myerson et al., Little, Brown, pp. 3-39.
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Biography

Birth and Background

29 November 1832

LMA was born in Germantown near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on this day, which was also her father 's thirty-third birthday. She was the second of four girls.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
239
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
29 November 2007

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