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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott, born in 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, is widely known as the author of Little Women, in which she modeled the characters after herself and her sisters. Published in 1868, the book was a huge success and others followed. Alcott was instructed in writing throughout her childhood by her father’s friends and acquaintances Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller. An interesting fact about Louisa May Alcott is that she was born on her father’s birthday and was buried on the anniversary of the day of his funeral. Alcott never married. Learn more fun and interesting facts about Louisa May Alcott by asking and answering questions about her life in this category.

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Did Louisa May Alcott live in new york city?

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No. She was born in Pennsylvania. She lived most of her life in Massachusetts. She served as a nurse in D. C. during the Civil War. The person who answered that Florida belonged to Spain during her lifetime needed to do their homework. Florida became a US territory in 1821 and a State in 1845. Alcott was born in 1832 and died in 1888, so it was a terrirory over a decade by the time of her birth and became a State before she became an adult.

The author who did live in Florida who was Alcott's contempoary was Harriot Beecher Stowe who wrote "Little Tom's Cabin". She bought property near Jackville a year after the end of the Civil War and lived there off and on until she was elderly. Then she returned to Connecticut.

When did Abigail May Alcott die?

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She died on November 25, 1877

Did Louisa May Alcott adopt her nephew?

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Yes, she did.

What is other books by Louisa May Alcott?

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Transcendental Wild Oats, Little Women, and Flower Fables

What was the cause of Louisa May Alcott's death?

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She was given the calomel treatment for tuberculosis during her work in the Civil War hospitals, but you know how it was supposed to help her? Instead she suffered from Mercury poisoning.and numonya

Did Louisa May Alcott graduate?

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Louisa May Alcott is known to have said, "Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!" This may imply that she did not receive formal higher education.

When did Louisa May Alcott get sick?

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She most likely had a form of cancer that occurred because of the large dose of mercury prescribed to her during her bout with typhoid.

What did Louisa May Alcott wear?

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She wore the long dresses typically worn by American women of her time. See the link below for pictures of her.

What did Louisa May Alcotts father do for a living?

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Amos Bronson Alcott would have been 61 when the US Civil War started, and he was Superintendant of Schools in Concord, Connecticut at that time.

What was Louisa May Alcott remembered for?

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well she was an author, most famous for little women im pretty sure and her sisters inspired her to write little women

Where is Louisa May Alcott buried?

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Louisa May Alcott is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.

Her grave is on a hillside near that of Emerson, Hawthorne and Thoreau.This area is called Authors Corner.

What were Louisa May Alcott's faiorte things?

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I'm pretty sure it is classical, like Mozart.

Jo and Amy and Beth and Meg are characters from which Louisa May Alcott novel?

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Lousia May Alcott's Little Women. My all-time favorite. Meg and Jo are also featured in the two sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Beth, alas, is not--she dies in Little Women.

Did Louisa May Alcott ever have children?

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No. She had no children.

However, she did look after her sisters daughter.

Also, she adopted her nephew.
Louisa May Alcott never had children because she wasn't even married!

Who is louisa may alott?

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Louisa May Alcott was the Author of the Fictional classic "Little Women".

What religion was Louisa May Alcott?

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Although she wasn't an atheist, she didn't practice any particular religion.

She wrote this in her adulthood:

"When feeling most alone, I find refuge in the Almighty Friend. If this is experiencing religion, I have done it; but I think it is only the lesson one must learn as it comes, and I am glad to know it."

Who is telling the story in little men by Louisa May Alcott?

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Jo Bhaer is the main character in the novel Little Men.

Who did Luisa May Alcott marry?

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She never married.

Did Louisa May Alcott influence anyone?

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The person that influenced Louisa May Alcott was her father because of his ideas as an inventor and a teacher. He was the one that taught her most of the stuff she knew.

What color eyes did Louisa May Alcott have?

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In 1909, Helen Keller had her eyes surgically removed and replaced with glass eyes. There is written commentary that they were a beautiful blue.

Why did Louisa May Alcott become a writer?

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Lucy became a writer by having to write her own storys and publish them