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Louisa May Alcott

Biography Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Her family moved in 1834 to Boston, Massachusetts. Louisa was one  of four daughters. For a short time she attended a small school in Still River Village and a small school held in her families barn. Most of Louisa's edu  cation was brought on by her father, Bronson Alcott. Although her fathers association with Transidentalists allowed Louisa to grow up in an intelectual and non-  conventional envirenmont, her own views challenged the transcendential philosiphy. Challenges > > > > > > > > > >
 * Louisa May Alcott has a penchant for order and precision, and an almost compulsive attention to detail.
 * She is often hypercritical and can be such a demanding perfectionist that she discourages herself or others from even attempting something that will not be done exactly the way Alcott knows it should be done.
 * She frequently over analyze or pick things apart mentally.
 * Louisa must learn that she does not have to rationally understand everything in order for it to be valid, and also to relax her unnecessarily high or strict standards.
 * Caution and realism are her virtues though Louisa limits herself at times by being too careful, shy, or fearful, and not believing in herself enough or being assertive when necessary.
 * She is inclined to feel inferior and may easily be taken in by others.
 * Louisa has to guard against being deceived or used by others, though her intentions may be good.
 * Louisa May Alcott must not let her desire to have things cloud her ability to see what is really happening.
 * When under stress, Louisa May Alcott is apt to shut off the flow of her emotions and ignore her needs and feelings.
 * Feeling like an outsider, Alcott gets the impression that others try to restrain her.

Facts About Louisa Louisa May Alcott is widely known as the writer of Little Women, a self reflective children's book published in 1868. The sucess of this book led to her other books based on Louisa's life such as Little Men and Jo's Boys. During this time, ALcott contracted typhoid fever. Prompted by her wish to promote womens roles, and her hatred for slavery, as a young adult during the Civil War, she volunteered to be a nurse in an army hospital in Washington, D.C. Although she is most popluar for her childrens literature, Alcott explored the themes of self expression and womens rights and through her adult fiction works, //Behind a Mask//; or, //A Womens Power, and Work: A Story of Experience,// and //A Modern Mephistopheles.// //_//

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Quote from Louisa May Alcott- " You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for concietspoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charmof all power is modesty."

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