LOUISA M. ALCOTT BIOGRAPHY
LOUISA M. ALCOTT BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
ALCOTT, LOUISA M. (1832-1888). —Writer of juvenile and other tales, dau. of Amos Bronson Alcott, an educational and social theorist, lecturer, and author, was born in Pennsylvania. During the American civil war she served as a nurse, and afterwards attained celebrity as a writer of books for young people, of which the best is Little Women (1868). Others are Little Men and Jo's Boys . She also wrote novels, including Moods and Work .