Louisa May Alcott Quotes


[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.


Citations

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Roberts Brothers, 1869.

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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.