“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.” This quote by Louisa May Alcott is a perfect description of her life. Although her family was engulfed in poverty, Alcott was determined to make an example of herself to others.

On November 29,1832, Louisa May Alcott was born to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Along with her sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May, Alcott was educated by her father, while their mother taught them the basics of Christianity. Bronson was a philosopher and teacher, and Abigail was a social worker. However, because of Bronson’s inability to provide for his family, Alcott and her sisters started working at a young age. …show more content…
during the Civil war to work as a nurse. Alcott’s literary career started with short stories and poems that were published in magazines. She also published Hospital Sketches in 1863, which was based on letters she wrote home about her time in Washington, D.C. as a nurse. Some of her books were published under Alcott’s pen name, A. M. Barnard. Her most famous work is Little Women (1868), which is a partial autobiography of her childhood. During her lifetime, Alcott published over 30 books and poems that are still treasured today. She never married, and she died on March 6, 1888 of a stroke. Alcott is buried at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord,