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Famed novelist Louisa May Alcott was
born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Alcott
was a best-selling novelist of the late 1800s, and many of her works, most notably Little Women, remain popular today.
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Alcott was taught by her father,
Amos Bronson Alcott, and studied informally with family friends.
Alcott worked as a domestic servant and teacher, to help her family from 1850 to 1862. During the Civil War, she went to Washington, D.C. to work as a nurse.
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Louisa May Alcott published poems, short
stories, thrillers, and juvenile tales since 1851, under the
pen name Flora Fairfield. In 1862, she also adopted the pen name A.M. Barnard, and some of her melodramas were produced on Boston stages. But after the Civil War in1863 decided to be a serious writer. She began to publish stories under her real name, and became editor of a girls‘magazine, Merry's Museum.
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The great success of Little Women (1869–70) gave Alcott financial
independence.
Her other books include Little Men (1871), Eight Cousins (1875) and Jo's Boys (1886).