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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020616
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Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832 but spent most of her childhood in Concord, Massachusetts. She worked as a teacher, seamstress and governess, but found her niche writing poetry and short stories. Her first book, `Flower Fables', was published in 1854. Alcott's most notable work was the novel `Little Women', published in 1869, in which she drew on her own experiences to produce a story revolving around four sisters in 19th-century New England, during the Civil War. It became a classic. Alcott died in 1888.

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