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Louisa May Alcott

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Mar 6, 1888
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
Philadelphia PA
About
American author of the classic novels, Little Women and Little Men. She used the pen name A. M. Barnard early in her career and, in her later life, became a well-known feminist and abolitionist.
Family
She was the second oldest of four daughters born to Abby May Alcott and experimental educator and prominent Transcendentalist, . She and her sisters-- Anna, Elizabeth, and Abigail-- were the inspirations for the fictional sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March) in Little Women.

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