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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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People best know American writer Louisa May Alcott for Little Women (1868), her largely autobiographical novel.

As A.M. Barnard:
Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (1866)
The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (1867)
A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866 – first published 1995)
First published anonymously:
A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)

Philosopher-teacher Amos Bronson Alcott, educated his four daughters, Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth and May and Abigail May, wife of Amos, reared them on her practical Christianity.

Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, where visits to library of Ralph Waldo Emerson, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at Hillside (now "Wayside ...more

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Louisa May Alcott’s books

Average rating: 4.11 · 2,449,778 ratings · 68,646 reviews · 3,343 distinct works • Similar authors

	Little Women 4.14 avg rating — 2,097,010 ratings — published 1868 — 8803 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 3.87 avg rating — 60,265 ratings — published 1871 — 2732 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 3.97 avg rating — 38,423 ratings — published 1869 — 492 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 — 37,058 ratings — published 1874 — 3694 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) 4.03 avg rating — 34,754 ratings — published 1869 — 633 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 3.83 avg rating — 35,419 ratings — published 1886 — 273 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) 4.04 avg rating — 22,840 ratings — published 1876 — 400 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 4.08 avg rating — 19,638 ratings — published 1870 — 1523 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
	A Long Fatal Love Chase 3.67 avg rating — 6,618 ratings — published 1995 — 79 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) 4.31 avg rating — 5,557 ratings — published 1868 — 80 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

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January 2015 Old School Classics Poll

Which book would you like to read for our January 2015 Old School Classics group read?

1851, Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, 257 pages

14 votes, 23.7%

1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages

11 votes, 18.6%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages

7 votes, 11.9%

1764, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 125 pages

4 votes, 6.8%

1868, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 449 pages

4 votes, 6.8%

1874, Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 480 pages

4 votes, 6.8%

800, Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, 213 pages

4 votes, 6.8%

1894, The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling, 368 pages

3 votes, 5.1%

1847, Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 251 pages

2 votes, 3.4%

1892, The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, 176 pages

2 votes, 3.4%

1830, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 607 pages

2 votes, 3.4%

1869, The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, 560 pages

1 vote, 1.7%

1895, Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane, 272 pages

1 vote, 1.7%

59 total votes

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