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A young woman, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Louise May Alcott was one of their most brilliant writers of the nineteenth century American. However, more than 300 works, stands one above all: Little Women. Not only for its quality, freshness and perfect writing, but because it is a sort of autobiography of Louise. Some see Jo, with lights, a portrait of herself.
A family transcendentalist
Louise May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1832. His parents, Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May belonged to the congregation of the New England Transcendentalist and advocated the separation of material goods as a way of life.
Concord and Massachusetts were the two cities in which they lived the couple and their four daughters, of which Louise was the second.
Louise was educated by his father, philosopher and professor and prominent intellectuals such as Henry David Thoreau. However, Louise had to reconcile his role as a student with other tasks in order to help his family financially. Governess, teacher or nurse were some of his work that gave, in addition to a salary, a myriad of experiences and ideas for future writings.
Stories and novels
At 22, Louise published her first book, Flower Fables , a collection of stories dedicated to Elle, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, philosopher and a leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
From then began working in various publications and writing novels. At that time, during the Civil War, Louise worked as a nurse in a hospital. Their experiences reflected in a series of letters to his family subsequently be published together under the title Hospital Sketches (Scenes from the life of a hospital) receiving a very well received by critics.
The Little Women fame
But the real success came with the publication of Little Women in 1868. It is this immortal work, Louise reflected part of his life telling of a family with four daughters transcendentalist. The freshness, sense of humor with which he explained the experiences of young women little women, the work became a bestseller of the time. It was so successful he had to Louise wrote several sequels in which further explained the history of the March family.
The other Louise
But along with his works of a more moralistic and politically correct, Louise also wrote passionate stories of forbidden love that ended in revenge or tragedy. These works were published under the pseudonym AM Barnard.
a life of renunciation
Maybe this other facet of Louise was a literary outlet for their deepest longings and desires. For the young writer dedicated his life to his family, always being a daughter copy. Louise never married. Missing his mother, took charge of his home, caring for her father and sisters. The disappearance of her sister left the post May also his niece.
with a fragile health had deteriorated during the American Civil War, Louise died in 1888. His great work Little Women, made immortal.
His great
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
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