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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

Her Life, Letters, and Journals
BiographyBiography & Memoir
Pages
428
Published
1995
Language
English

Synopsis

Step back in time to the formative years of a literary icon. This collection features diary entries from Louisa May Alcott herself, penned between the ages of eleven and thirteen. Discover her earliest thoughts, feelings, and the beginnings of her poetic voice during a crucial period of her youth.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

ReflectiveNostalgicInformativeThought-Provoking
Coming of AgeEpistolary

Genres

Biography Biography & Memoir Essays History Literary Fiction Memoir Short Stories

About the author

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May, were educated by their father, philosopher and teacher Bronson Alcott, and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at...