Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens."Īt 15 years of age in 1847, the poverty that plagued her family troubled her, who vowed: "I will do something by and by. She and her sisters often acted out her melodramatic stories of her rich imagination for friends. and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences." Like Jo March, her character in Little Women, young Louisa, a tomboy, claimed: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, where visits to library of Ralph Waldo Emerson, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at Hillside (now "Wayside") of Nathaniel Hawthorne enlightened her days. Philosopher-teacher Amos Bronson Alcott, educated his four daughters, Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth and May and Abigail May, wife of Amos, reared them on her practical Christianity. The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (1867)Ī Long Fatal Love Chase (1866 – first published 1995) People best know American writer Louisa May Alcott for Little Women (1868), her largely autobiographical novel.
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