Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May, were educated by their father, philosopher and teacher Bronson Alcott, and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. 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". Like her character, "Jo March" in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy. "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 ..." For Louisa, writing was an early passion. She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends. Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays --"the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens." At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write -- anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!"

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Behind a Mask
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Louisa May Alcott Hidden Gems Collection
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Lulu's Library, Volume 2
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Garland for Girls
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Hombrecitos
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Donetes. Meg, Jo, Beth i Amy
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Jo's Boys
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Malenkie zhenschiny
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Little Women
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A Treasury of Timeless Christmas Tales, Vol. II
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Aquellas mujercitas
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Aquelles donetes
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Aquelles donetes
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Silver Pitchers
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Kücük Kadinlar-Kisaltilmis Metin
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Iyi Esler
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Küçük Kadinlar
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Pauline's Passion And Punishment
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La llave misteriosa y lo que abrió
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Cambios de humor
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Mociñas
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Mociñas
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Donetes
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Donetes
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