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Louisa May Alcott

Born

in Germantown, Pennsylvania, The United States

November 29, 1832

Died

March 06, 1888

Website

http://www.louisamayalcott.org

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Johann ...more

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Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes ...more

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Louisa May Alcott’s books

Average rating: 4.14 · 2,859,722 ratings · 94,001 reviews · 4,043 distinct works • Similar authors

	Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,443,009 ratings — published 1868 — 3936 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Men (Little Women, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 68,100 ratings — published 1871 — 2263 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Małe kobietki (Małe kobietki, #1, Część 1) by Louisa May Alcott, Anna Bańkowska (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 49,085 ratings — published 1869 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Wives 3.98 avg rating — 49,132 ratings — published 1869 — 541 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 39,662 ratings — published 1874 — 2487 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jo's Boys (Little Women, #3) 3.83 avg rating — 39,479 ratings — published 1886 — 669 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousins, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 24,143 ratings — published 1876 — 817 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Old-Fashioned Girl 4.09 avg rating — 22,287 ratings — published 1870 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Women / Little Men / Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 7,776 ratings — published 1868 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Piccole donne by Louisa May Alcott, Berto Minozzi (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 6,582 ratings — published 1868 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women (3 books)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,607,110 ratings

Eight Cousins (2 books)
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4.03 avg rating — 63,871 ratings

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag (6 books)
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3.57 avg rating — 790 ratings

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3.71 avg rating — 151 ratings

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July 2015 Old School Classics Poll

Which book would you like to read for our July Old School Classics group read?

1868, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 449 pages

20 votes, 46.5%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages

9 votes, 20.9%

1833, Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages

4 votes, 9.3%

1878, The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, 448 pages

4 votes, 9.3%

1678, The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, 324 pages

3 votes, 7.0%

1787, Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 432 pages

1 vote, 2.3%

1797, The Italian by Ann Radcliffe, 423 pages

1 vote, 2.3%

1849, Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, 624 pages

1 vote, 2.3%

1839, The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, 532 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

43 total votes

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