louisa may alcott

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louisa may alcott teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: {i} (1832-1888) daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, United States novelist who wrote the novel "Little Women" 1868; a US writer whose novels for children include Little Women and Good Wives (1832-88). born Nov. 29, 1832, Germantown, Pa., U.S. died March 6, 1888, Boston, Mass. U.S. author. Daughter of the reformer Bronson Alcott, she grew up in Transcendentalist circles in Boston and Concord, Mass. She began writing to help support her mother and sisters. An ardent abolitionist, she volunteered as a nurse during the American Civil War, where she contracted the typhoid that damaged her health the rest of her life; her letters, published as Hospital Sketches (1863), first brought her fame. With the huge success of the autobiographical Little Women (1868-69), she finally escaped debt. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886) also drew on her experiences as an educator

louisa may alcott