Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of Little Women (the novel she is best known for), published in 1868, a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. The sequel to Little Women, Good Wives (1869), followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) detailed the characters and ways of her nephews who lived with her at Orchard House in Concord. Jo's Boys (1886) completed the "March Family Saga."
Most of her later volumes, An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag (6 vols., 1871–1879), Eight Cousins and its sequel Rose in Bloom (1876), and others, followed in the line of Little Women, remaining popular with her large and loyal public.
In her later life, Alcott became an advocate of women's suffrage and was the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Massachusetts.
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