Louisa May Alcott Biography

Louisa May Alcott

(She was famous American novelist and poet, vintage line drawing or engraving illustration)


Born            :  November 29, 1832.
Died            : March 6, 1888.(Age:55)
Occupation:  Novelist,  Poet.
Genre          : Prose, Poetry.
Subject       : Young Adult Fiction.
Nick Name : The Children's Friend.
Pen Name  : A.M Bernard.

Louisa May Alcott was Born In November 29, 1832 at Germantown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Her father name Was Amos Bronson Alcott And Mother name was Abigali May. She was a Tomboy When she was a Kid. She Raised in New England. She used Her pen Name A.M Bernard  when she First Start Her career.

She Was a Feminist. She remain Unmarried Her whole Life. During American Civil war She served as A nurse. After That Her father Write a Poem For Louisa . He was proud Of his Daughter For serving Injured soldier.

Her Famous Book Little Women Was a Semi- Biography Of her Childhood.
Two Days After Her Father's death Louisa Died from Stroke, Boston, Massachusetts.
Her Last know words was " Is It Not Meningitis?

BOOKS

The Little Women trilogy:

  • Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868)
  • Part Second of Little Women, or "Good Wives", published in 1869; and afterward published together with Little Women.
  • Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
  • Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" (1886)

Novels:

  • The Inheritance (1849, unpublished until 1997)
  • Moods (1865, revised 1882)
  • The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867)
  • An Old Fashioned Girl (1870)
  • Will's Wonder Book (1870)
  • Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
  • Beginning Again, Being a Continuation of Work (1875)
  • Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875)
  • Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to Eight Cousins (1876)
  • Under the Lilacs (1878)
  • Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)
  • Proverb Stories (1882)
  • As A. M. Barnard Edit
  • 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)
  • Published anonymously Edit
  • A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)

Short story collections for children:
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872–1882). (66 short stories in six volumes)

  • Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
  • Shawl-Straps
  • Cupid and Chow-Chow
  • My Girls, Etc.
  • Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc.
  • An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.

Lulu's Library (1886–1889) A collection of 32 short stories in three volumes.

  1. Flower Fables (1849)
  2. On Picket Duty, and other tales (1864)

Morning-Glories and Other Stories (1867) Eight fantasy stories and four poems for children, including: A Strange Island, (1868) 

  • The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864)
  • A Christmas Song, Morning Glories 
  • Shadow-Children, Poppy's Pranks 
  • What the Swallows did, Little Gulliver 
  • The Whale's story 
  • Goldfin and Silvertail

Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories (Three Proverb Stories), 1868, (includes "Kitty's Class Day", "Aunt Kipp" and "Psyche's Art")

Spinning-Wheel Stories (1884). A collection of 12 short stories.

The Candy Country (1885) (One short story)

  • May Flowers (1887) (One short story)
  • Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair (1887) (One short story)
  • A Garland for Girls (1888). A collection of eight short stories.
  • The Brownie and the Princess (2004). A collection of ten short stories.

Other short stories and novelettes:

  • Thoreau's Flute (1863)
  • Hospital Sketches (1863)
  • Pauline's Passion and Punishment (1863)
  • Doctor Dorn's Revenge (1868)
  • La Jeune; or, Actress and Woman (1868)
  • Countess Varazoff (1868)
  • The Romance of a Bouquet (1868)
  • A Laugh and A Look (1868)
  • Perilous Play, (1869)(One short story)
  • Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse
  • Transcendental Wild Oats (1873) A Short story about Alcott's family and the Transcendental Movement.
  • Silver Pitchers, and Independence: A Centennial Love Story" (1876)
  • Comic Tragedies (1893 [posthumously]

      📖📖📖📖


Post a Comment

2 Comments

If you recommend anything for this review