Alcott

Sisterhood saga author

Alcott is a surname, most associated with Louisa May Alcott, the nineteenth-century American author of *Little Women*.

Her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, was a philosopher and educational reformer in the Transcendentalist movement.

The name occasionally appears as a given name or place name.

works

Little Women

Novel about four sisters

author

novelist

Writer of prose narratives

feminist · pseudonym · temperance advocate · reformer · diarist · children's author · moralist

themes

domesticity

Life centered around home

morality · sacrifice · poverty · ambition · independence · virtue · family · sentimentalism · bildungsroman · women's work

milieu

Concord

Unity or famous places

New England · transcendentalism · abolitionism · Thoreau · Emerson · Hawthorne · Massachusetts · utopian community

characters

Jo March

Beth March · Meg March · Amy March · Dan

Categories
Opposites
audience and genre

AlcottHoratio Alger

sensationalists

Phrases
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Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G