Louisa May Alcott (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Louisa May Alcott, the famous daughter of a famous father, was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832, but her early life was spent in the vicinity of Concord and Boston, where she grew up under the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a transcendentalist and a nonresident member of Brook Farm. Reformer, scholar, and educator, he founded the well-known Temple School in Boston.
Early in life Louisa May Alcott realized that her impractical father needed financial assistance to run his household. Accordingly she worked as a...
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