The great success of Little Women gave Alcott financial independence and created a demand for more books. She began to publish stories under her real name in Atlantic Monthly and Lady's Companion, and took a brief trip to Europe in 1865 before becoming editor of a girls' magazine, Merry's Museum. But it was her account of her Civil War experiences, Hospital Sketches (1863), that confirmed Alcott's desire to be a serious writer. Barnard, and some of her melodramas were produced on Boston stages. In 1862, she also adopted the pen name A.M. Unknown to most people, Alcott had been publishing poems, short stories, thrillers and juvenile tales since 1851, under the pen name Flora Fairfield. During the Civil War, she went to Washington, D.C. Residing in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, Alcott worked as a domestic servant and teacher, among other positions, to help support her family from 1850 to 1862. Alcott was a best-selling novelist of the late 1800s, and many of her works, most notably Little Women, remain popular today.Īlcott was taught by her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, until 1848, and studied informally with family friends such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker. Early LifeĪlcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Her novel Little Women gave Alcott financial independence and a lifetime writing career. Louisa May Alcott was an American author who wrote under various pseudonyms and only started using her own name when she was ready to commit to writing.
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