Louisa May Alcott Quotes


He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.


Citations

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women, Part Second. Roberts Brothers, 1869, p. 153.

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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
  • Born: November 29, 1832
  • Died: March 6, 1888
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

Louisa May Alcott (/ˈɔːlkət, -kɒt/; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.