![]() ![]() She had a rich imagination and her stories often became the basis of melodramas she and her sisters would act out for friends. "įor Louisa, writing was an early passion. "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, "and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences. Like the character of "Jo March" in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at "Hillside" (now "The Wayside"). Bronson Alcott, and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. ![]() She and her three sisters - Anna, Elizabeth, and May - were primarily educated by their father, teacher/philosopher A. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. ![]() My book came out and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all, since she could do so well as housemaid, teacher, seamstress, and story-teller. ![]()
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