Louisa May Alcott has deeply influenced different generations all over the world with her novels written as a friend who takes the moral and emotional attitudes and problems of children who take their first step into adulthood seriously.
(1832-1888) American writer. She gained worldwide fame with her novels for children. She was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott, who is known for her innovative suggestions and practices in the field of education. Her childhood was spent in perpetual poverty. However, she found the opportunity to be in constant contact with poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, friends of her father and fellow Transcendentalists. This intellectual environment led her to be interested in literature at an early age. In order to contribute to the livelihood of her family, she worked as a maid, tailor, and teacher, starting from her youth. Her health, which deteriorated due to the poor conditions in the hospital where she was a nurse during the Civil War, did not fully recover afterward. In 1867 she directed a youth magazine. Her family's financial situation improved when her novel Little Women, published in 1868, received great attention. While she was constantly writing, she worked extensively on women's suffrage and anti-drinking. She lived in Boston in her final years. She died on March 6, 1888, in Concord, where she passed her youth.
Alcott started writing very early. She wrote Flower Fables, a book of tales Emerson told her daughter, published in 1854 when she was just sixteen. Her stories and poems were featured in the Atlantic Monthly. She first gained attention with her book Hospital Sketches (1863), which stemmed from her hospital experiences. Her first novel, Moods, was published in 1864. After Little Women achieved great success and became one of the important works of world children's literature, she continued to write novels in the same line.
In these novels, which mainly draw from the lives of herself, her father, and her sisters, she conveyed the stories of the ordinary American family in a soft and emotional way. Little Men and Jo's Boys are the most important of them.
WORKS:
Flower Fables, 1854;
Hospital Sketches, 1863;
Moods, 1864;
Little Women, 1868,
An Old-Fashioned Girl, 1870;
Little Men, 1871,
Under TheLilacs, 1975;
Jack And Jill, 1880;
Jo's Boys, 1886.