Fiction · 1854
Flower Fables
Alcott wrote these fairy tales — about flower-spirits, elves, and the small kingdoms hidden in an ordinary garden — for Ellen Emerson, the daughter of her neighbor and family friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, years before she'd write anything resembling Little Women.
Flower Fables, published in 1854, was Alcott's first book, appearing fourteen years before Little Women made her famous.
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1832–1888 · Victorian
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, the daughter of the transcendentalist educator Bronson Alcott, with Emerson and Thoreau as family friends. She worked as a teacher, seamstress and Civil War nurse (Hospital Sketches, 1863) and wrote sensational stories under a pseudonym before Little Women (1868–69), drawn from her own family, made her famous. Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886) followed. She was active in abolition and women’s suffrage.
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