Louisa May Alcott

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Standard Name: Alcott, Louisa May
Birth Name: Louisa May Alcott
Pseudonym: Flora Fairfield
Pseudonym: A. M. Barnard
Used Form: Louisa Alcott
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.
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.

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Education Helen Oyeyemi
HO reports having been an avid reader and beginning to write at an early age. She recounts that reading Louisa May Alcott 's Little Women as a child turned me into a writer. ....
Family and Intimate relationships Kate Parry Frye
KPF 's father, Frederick Charlwood Frye , attended Saffron Walden Grammar School and worked as a clerk and grocer. During the late nineteenth century his grocery business did very well, expanding into a chain, and...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Mead
Her engagement at seventeen was probably, like her becoming a Christian, an act of rebellion against her parents, who were both nearly thirty when they married, and who wanted her to wait—especially against her mother...
Family and Intimate relationships Tillie Olsen
Their next child (also, as the nurses said, just a girl) was born on 17 November 1943. She was named Katherine Jo Olsen for Käthe Kollwitz , Katherine Mansfield , Kate Kennedy (a pioneer of...
Friends, Associates Frances Hodgson Burnett
In Washington FHB quickly made new friends, particularly the journalist Julia Schayer (who soon after they met wrote of her as the Coming Woman).
qtd. in
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
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Within a few years she made the acquaintance of...
Friends, Associates Mary Howitt
They became close to a young friend met in Rome, Margaret Foley , a sculptor from New England, who took up summer residence in the same spot. Visitors to their house in Rome included...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
FPC also numbered Americans among her wide circle of friends. Louisa May Alcott recalled vividly how her assumption that FPC would be a serious, severe lady, of the Cornelia Blimber school was immediately banished on...
Friends, Associates Harriet Martineau
In the USA HM became a good friend of Margaret Fuller , although differences developed between them after Martineau published Society in America, which she saw as objecting to Fuller's gorgeous pedantry and disregard...
Friends, Associates Rebecca Harding Davis
She established a friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne through an early, enthusiastic letter, in which she described the delight of her first encounters with his work. She nevertheless felt that he always stood somewhat aloof from...
Intertextuality and Influence Helen Oyeyemi
HO identifies more as a reader than as a writer: she cites, alludes to, and rewrites a large number and variety of authors: Emily Dickinson , Nella Larsen , Louisa May Alcott , and Simi Bedford
Intertextuality and Influence Helen Oyeyemi
As an avid reader, HO often cites other women writers—as well as men—as influential on her writing. She frequently cites and mentions both Louisa May Alcott 's Little Women and Emily Dickinson , of whom...
Intertextuality and Influence Monica Furlong
She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God.
Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton, 1973.
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She then posits an absolute human need for meaning and for myth (the core...
Intertextuality and Influence Shena Mackay
The book blends the ordinary and extraordinary. The two girls devour books: Anna Sewell 's Black Beauty, The Valley of Doom, Louisa May Alcott 's Little Women, Lucy Maud Montgomery 's Anne...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
The book's application of the rhetoric of duty and its emphasis on the special characteristics of women made it enormously effective as an address to women who were not already committed feminists. Frances E. Willard
Intertextuality and Influence Rebecca Harding Davis
When it first appeared, RHD 's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press, 1972.
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American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Emily Dickinson wrote to her sister-in-law for a copy.
Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago, 1980.
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Davis's publisher...

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