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ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY (1832-1888)

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From: Young Students Learning Library
Date: 19960101
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Little Women, the story of a New England family during the Civil War, was written by Louisa May Alcott. She wrote the story about her own family. She was Jo, and her real-life sisters, May, Elizabeth, and Anna, were the other March sisters--Meg, Beth, and Amy.

Louisa May Alcott was born in Pennsylvania, but she lived most of her life in Massachusetts. Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, where she sometimes wrote, is a museum today. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, famous writers, were the Alcotts' friends. They sometimes tutored Louisa and her sisters ...

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