LOUISA MAY See also:

• ALCOTT, AMOS BRONSON (1799-1888)
• LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888)

ALCOTT (1832-1888)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American author, was the daughter of See also:

• AMOS
• AMOS, SHELDON (1835–1886)

Amos Bronson See also:

• ALCOTT, AMOS BRONSON (1799-1888)
• ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY (1832-1888)

Alcott, and though of New See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England parentage and See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• GERMANTOWN

Germantown, now See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia, See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania, on the 29th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1832 . She began See also:

• WORK

work at an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early. See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age as an occasional teacher and as a writer—her first See also:

• BOOK

book was See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

Flower Fables (1854), tales originally written for Ellen, daughter of R . W . See also:

• EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882)
• EMERSON, WILLIAM (1701-1782)

Emerson . In 186o she began See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing for the See also:

• ATLANTIC

Atlantic Monthly, and she. was See also:

• NURSE (a shortened form of the earlier " nourice," adapted through the French from Lat. nutrix, nu/rite, to nourish)

nurse in the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital at See also:

• GEORGETOWN

Georgetown, D.C., for "six See also:

• WEEKS, EDWIN LORD (1849-1903)

weeks in 1862-1863 . Her See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home letters, revised and published in the See also:

• COMMONWEALTH

Commonwealth and collected as Hospital' Sketches (1863, re-published with additions in 1869), displayed some See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of observation and See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record; and Moods, a novel (1864), despite its uncertainty of method and of See also:

• TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch, gave considerable promise . She soon turned, however, to the rapid See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of stories for girls, and, with the exception of the cheery See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale entitled Work (1873), and the See also:

• ANONYMOUS

anonymous novelette A See also:

• MODERN

Modern See also:

• MEPHISTOPHELES

Mephistopheles (1877), which attracted little See also:

• NOTICE

notice, she did not return to the more ambitious See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields of the novelist . Her success dated from the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of the first See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of Little See also:

• WOMEN

Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), in which, with unfailing See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour; freshness and lifelikeness, she put into See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form many of the sayings and doings of herself and sisters . `Little Men (1871) similarly treated the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character and ways of her nephews in the See also:

• ORCHARD (O. Eng. ort-geard, later orceard; a combination apparently of Lat. hortus, garden, and " yard " or " Barth ")

Orchard See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House in See also:

• CONCORD
• CONCORD, BOOK OF (Liber Concordiae)

Concord, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, in which See also:

• MISS

Miss Alcott's See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry had now established her parents and other members of the Alcott See also:

• FAMILY

family; but most of her later volumes, An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag (6 vols., 1871-18i9), See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

Rose in See also:

• BLOOM (from A.S. bloma, a flower)

Bloom (1876), &c., followed in the See also:

• LINE

line of Little Women, of which the author's large and ipyal public never wearied . Her natural love of labour, her wide-reaching generosity, her See also:

• QUICK

quick See also:

• PERCEPTION (from Lat. percipere, to perceive)

perception and her fondness for sharing with her many readers that cheery humour which radiated from her See also:

• PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality and her books, led her to produce stories of a diminishing value, and at last she succumbed to overwork, dying in See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston on the 6th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1888, two days after the See also:

• DEATH

death of her See also:

• FATHER

father in the same See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . Miss Alcott's early See also:

• EDUCATION

education had partly been given by the naturalist See also:

• THOREAU, HENRY DAVID (1817-1862)

Thoreau, but had chiefly been in the hands of her father; and in her girlhood and early womanhood she had fully shared the trials and poverty incident to the See also:

• LIFE

life of a peripatetic idealist . In a newspaper See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch entitled " Transcendental See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

Wild Oats," afterwards re-printed in the See also:

• VOLUME

volume See also:

• SILVER

Silver Pitchers (1876), she narrated, with a delicate humour, which showed what her See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers might have been if freed from drudgery, the experiences of her family during an experiment towards communistic " See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain living and high thinking " at " Fruitlands," in the See also:

• TOWN

town of Harvard, Massachusetts, in 1843 .

The story of her career has been fully and frankly told in Mrs Ednah D . Cheney's Louisa May Akott: Her Life, Letters and See also:

• JOURNALS

Journals (Boston . 1889) . (C . F .