Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)
Famous Works Include: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs
Her first book was Flower Fables (1854), which was a collection of tales originally written for Ellen Emerson, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. She is less well known for the passionate, fiery novels and stories she wrote under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard. These works, such as A Long Fatal Love Chase and Pauline's Passion and Punishment, were known in the Victorian Era as "potboilers" or "blood-and-thunder tales."
In her later life, Alcott became an advocate of women's suffrage and was the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Massachusetts in a school board election.
Hope you've enjoyed this blast from the past from a 2008 edition of the WCWC (Writing Center Water Closet, a monthly newsletter produced by the CWC)!
- Anna H.
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