Louisa May Alcott Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Louisa May Alcott (/ˈɔːlkət, -kɒt/; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard. With her pen name Louisa wrote novels for young adults in juvenile hall.Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888.
November 29, 1832, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died
March 6, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Place Of Birth
Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
Profession
Writer
Nationality
American
Parents
Amos Bronson Alcott, Abby May Alcott
Siblings
Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Anna Alcott Pratt, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott
Movies
The March Sisters At Christmas, An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, The Inheritance, Little Women, Little Men
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Quote
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[on life and death] Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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On spirit: Immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives of experiences, and such as are truly lived, used, and learned, helped on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.
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On friendship: A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found hath found a treasure.
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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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Don't let the sun go down upon your anger; forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
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Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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Fact
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American writer of classic children's fiction, best remembered for her novel "Little Women" (1868), an account of her own impoverished childhood and her close relationships with her siblings and parents.
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Lived her entire life in Boston and Concord.
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Worked as a nurse in a union hospital in Georgetown during the American Civil War.
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American author.
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Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Pictured on the 5¢ US postage stamp in the Famous American/Authors series, issued 5 February 1940.
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Born at 12:31 am-LMT
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Great Performances
2001
TV Series based on the novel by - 1 episode
Little Men
TV Series novel - 13 episodes, 1998 - 1999 characters - 1 episode, 1998 story - 1 episode, 1998
Little Men
1998
novel
The Inheritance
1997
TV Movie novel
Little Women
1994
novel
Wakakusa monogatari nan to Jô sensei
1993
TV Series novels
Quattro piccole donne
1989
TV Series novel "Little Women"
Ai no wakakusa monogatari
1987
TV Series novel
Wakakusa monogatari yori wakakusa no yonshimai
1981
TV Series novels
Little Women
1978
TV Mini-Series novel - 1 episode
NBC Special Treat
1976
TV Series novel - 1 episode
Little Women
1970
TV Mini-Series novel - 9 episodes
NBC Children's Theatre
1969
TV Series novel - 1 episode
Novela
1964-1967
TV Series novel - 2 episodes
Mujercitas
1962
TV Series story - 3 episodes
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1960-1961
TV Series novel - 2 episodes
La Hora Fate
1960
TV Series 1 episode
Jo's Boys
1959
TV Series novels "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys" - 7 episodes
Mulherzinhas
1959
TV Series novel
Little Women
1958
TV Movie novel
Good Wives
1958
TV Series novel - 5 episodes
Little Women
1958
TV Series novel - 6 episodes
Primavera
1958
TV Series novel
Xiao fu ren
1957
novel
Grande Teatro Tupi
1957
TV Series novel - 1 episode
Matinee Theatre
1956
TV Series story - 1 episode
Fu Lan jie jie
1956
story
A Girl Called Jo
1956
TV Movie novels "Little Women" and "Good Wives" - as Louisa M. Alcott
$800,000
