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Louisa May Alcott: a November birthday.(LIttle Women)(Short Story)
From: Child Life
Date: 20021001
Author:Armstrong, Laurie Hilyer
One hundred years ago this month, a baby girl was born and no one except her parents thought very much about her. But today her birthday is being celebrated all over the country by thousands and thousands of children. She was Louisa May Alcott, and she first opened her eyes on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
Concord, Massachusetts, where the family moved when Louisa was eight years old, celebrated Miss Alcott's 100th anniversary in several ways, chiefly by giving the play of Little Women.
In the audience were two flaxen-haired little girls, grandnieces of ...
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