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Louisa May Alcott


Born
in Germantown, Pennsylvania, The United States
November 29, 1832

Died
March 06, 1888

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences
Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Johann ...more


Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 2,964,773 ratings · 100,779 reviews · 4,315 distinct works • Similar authors
Little Women (Little Women,...
4.18 avg rating — 2,532,859 ratings — published 1868 — 6012 editions
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Little Men (Little Women, #2)
3.88 avg rating — 70,012 ratings — published 1871 — 803 editions
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Małe kobietki (Małe kobietk...
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4.05 avg rating — 51,679 ratings — published 1869 — 2 editions
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Good Wives
3.98 avg rating — 51,567 ratings — published 1869 — 548 editions
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Eight Cousins (Eight Cousin...
4.01 avg rating — 40,190 ratings — published 1874 — 2458 editions
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Jo's Boys (Little Women, #3)
3.83 avg rating — 40,428 ratings — published 1886 — 663 editions
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Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousin...
4.05 avg rating — 24,424 ratings — published 1876 — 807 editions
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
4.09 avg rating — 22,903 ratings — published 1870 — 555 editions
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Little Women / Little Men /...
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4.36 avg rating — 8,057 ratings — published 1868 — 175 editions
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4.09 avg rating — 6,904 ratings — published 1868 — 10 editions
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“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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Polls

January 2021 Old School Poll

 
  73 votes, 27.2%

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne 1865, 723 pages
 
  58 votes, 21.6%

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy 1899, 562 pages
 
  45 votes, 16.8%

Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope 1879, 336 pages
 
  29 votes, 10.8%

 
  24 votes, 9.0%

 
  23 votes, 8.6%

Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen 1880, 152 pages
 
  16 votes, 6.0%

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