Louisa May Alcott

1832 - 1888  (55 years)

• Name	Louisa May Alcott
  Birth	29 Nov 1832	Philadelphia, German Twp, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Note	Biographical Sketch: Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys. During the Civil War she served for about six weeks as a nurse at a Union military hospital in Washington, D.C.; her experience there resulted in several somewhat fictionalized magazine articles called Hospital Sketches that were later turned into a book by the same name. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard. With her pen name Louisa wrote novels for young adults. Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, and been made into a movie at least three times in English. Alcott was an ardent abolitionist and worked to advance women's rights.
  Death	6 Mar 1888	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Burial	9 Mar 1888	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Origins
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Amos Bronson Alcott,   b. 29 Nov 1799, Wolcott, New Haven, Connecticut, USA d. 4 Mar 1888, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 88 years)  (Father)  Dorothy J. Sewall,   b. 23 Dec 1758   d. 31 Oct 1825, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 66 years)  (Grandmother)
  Person ID	I6619	Hillbillies & Vikings
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2023

  
  

  Father	Amos Bronson Alcott,   b. 29 Nov 1799, Wolcott, New Haven, Connecticut, USA d. 4 Mar 1888, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Abigail May,   b. 8 Oct 1800, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 25 Nov 1877, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	23 May 1830	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Family ID	F1979	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Reference

  Carl Jón Denbow. "Louisa May Alcott". Hillbillies & Vikings. https://jonandjohn.org/getperson.php?personID=I6619&tree=tree1 (accessed April 28, 2025).