Biography

She was born in 1832 and she died 6th Mars in 1888 in Boston.

She was an American writer, known for her famous novel Little Women (1968). She committed to the abolitionist movement and suffragism, and she wrote a collection of novels and stories in which she dealt about taboo subjects of the time such as adultery and incest under the pseudonym of A.M. Barnard.

Her parents were Abigail May and the pedagogue, writer and philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott, who was linked to abolition, women's suffrage and educational reform. Louisa had got three sisters. Her brother died when he was a child. She grew up and lived in New England.

At an early age, she started to work sporadically as a teacher, seamstress, governess and writer to help her family financially.

Her first book was Flower Fables (1855). She never married. Like her parents, she was active on the social and political level, she fought in counter of the slavery and supported the women's vote.

In the Secession War, she worked as a nurse in the Union Hospital in Georgetown, Washington D C during six weeks between 1862- 1863.

She died because of the aftermath by mercury poisoning that she contracted during her service in the war. It happened the same day in which her father was buried. She was only 55 years old.