American novelist (1832–1888)
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She turned a childhood spent broke in a transcendentalist commune into Little Women, the novel that made girlhood seem worth writing about. The irony: Alcott wrote it for the money, not the art—and spent years before it publishing lurid thrillers under a pen name to keep her family fed.
Raised in New England by transcendentalist parents who counted Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne as neighbors, Alcott grew up intellectually rich and materially poor. She took odd jobs from an early age to support the family, and began writing for money—first sensation novels under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, then Hospital Sketches in the 1860s, drawn from her service as a Civil War nurse. Little Women arrived in 1868, loosely based on her childhood with three sisters, and became the success that anchored her career through three sequels. An abolitionist, feminist, and lifelong advocate for tem…
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If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have.
Suppose I broke away and left you, or made it impossible for you to stay.
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