Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was a nineteenth-century American novelist best known for *Little Women* (1868), a coming-of-age story about four sisters that drew heavily on her own family life in Massachusetts.
The book and its sequels became classics of children's literature.
Alcott also wrote thrillers and sensation fiction under pseudonyms.
Unity or famous places
- transcendentalismIntuition-based idealist philosophy
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- MassachusettsNortheastern colonial state
- New EnglandNortheast U.S. region
poverty · spinsterhood · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Henry David Thoreau · Nathaniel Hawthorne · Washington D.C. · typhoid fever · mercury poisoning
Opponent of human bondage
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- women's rightsLegal equality for females
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
- nursingMedical caretaking profession
temperance · social reform · antislavery · feminist themes · independence · self-reliance · working women · nonconformist
Novel about four sisters
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- pen nameAuthor's assumed identity
- serialized storiesFiction published in successive parts
- children's literatureBooks aimed at youth
Jo March · moral tales · semiautobiographical · pseudonymous · potboilers
Novel about four sisters
- LaurieUnisex given name
- sistersFemale kin or nuns
- coming-of-ageYouth becoming adulthood
- domesticityLife centered around home
Jo March · Meg March · Beth March · Amy March · family dynamics · moral lessons · Civil War era · sentimentalism
Concord
Unity or famous places
- transcendentalismIntuition-based idealist philosophy
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- MassachusettsNortheastern colonial state
New England · poverty · spinsterhood · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Henry David Thoreau · Nathaniel Hawthorne · Washington D.C. · typhoid fever · mercury poisoning
abolitionist
Opponent of human bondage
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- women's rightsLegal equality for females
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
nursing · temperance · social reform · antislavery · feminist themes · independence · self-reliance · working women · nonconformist · progressive
Little Women
Novel about four sisters
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- pen nameAuthor's assumed identity
- serialized storiesFiction published in successive parts
Jo March · children's literature · moral tales · semiautobiographical · pseudonymous · potboilers
Little Women
Novel about four sisters
- LaurieUnisex given name
- sistersFemale kin or nuns
- coming-of-ageYouth becoming adulthood
Jo March · Meg March · Beth March · Amy March · domesticity · family dynamics · moral lessons · Civil War era · sentimentalism · pilgrimage
- American Women WritersEmily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Emma Lazarus
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
- Women WritersJane Austen, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Anne Bronte
- American ClassicsMoby-Dick, Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Leaves of Grass
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
Louisa May AlcottEdgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville · Charles Bukowski · Cormac McCarthy · Mark Twain · Marquis de Sade
Louisa May AlcottMark Twain
Ernest Hemingway · Herman Melville · Jack London · Nathaniel Hawthorne · Henry James
Louisa May AlcottMarquis de Sade
Writer whose name became perversion
Charles Baudelaire · Friedrich Nietzsche · Oscar Wilde · Lord Byron