Louisa Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
Remembered as the author of the timeless classic Little Women, American author Louisa May Alcott was one of the nineteenth century’s most pioneering writers and a lifelong advocate of women’s rights, abolitionism and emancipation. Born into a literary family in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of transcendentalist philosopher Amos Bronson, Louisa May Alcott spent her formative years in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts where she spent time with some of the great scholars and writers of the time, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
