Louisa May Alcott Quotes


I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.


Context

Although not well known by the public, Alcott wrote the words to this Christian hymn.


Citations

Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888, Novelist, Hymn, A Little Kingdom I Possess, ~1846

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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.