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Louisa was born in Germantown (now a part of Philadelphia), Pennsylvania.
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Alcott and her family move to Boston, Massachusetts, a setting that would inspire the New England setting of Little Women.
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Alcott and her family move again, this time to Concord, Massachusetts.
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Video on Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail This new way of communication was invented just twelve years after Alcott was born. Technology brought about a change in America that would have, no doubt, affected Alcott's life.
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Compilated Pictures of Mexican-American War In her youth, Alcott would have heard about the war going on in the South West. Themes of war recurr in her major works including Little Women and Hospital Sketches.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a well known feminist writer, together with 67 other women and 32 men came together to sign this document at Seneca Falls, New York. There were 300 people in attendance, and this convention came together to discuss and promote the rights of women. Alcott was an advocate for women's rights.
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Flower Fables was written for Ellen Emerson, daughter of Alcott's neighbor and idol Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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PBS's segment on AlcottAt the age of 24, Alcott begins to write Little Women after being asked to write a "book for girls" by her publisher.
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Lincoln is best known for his involvement in the Civil War and the Great Emancipation Proclamation. Issues of equality would have been present in Alcott's mind throughout her lifetime.
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Little Women is set in New England during the American Civil War. Alcott would have been using her own life experiences and understandings of this war during her lifetime to include this in her novels.
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"I became an Abolitionist at an early age but have never been able to decide whether I was made so by seeing the portrait of George Thompson hidden under a bed in our house during the Garrison riot . . . or because I was saved from drowning in the Frog Pond some years later by a colored boy. However that may be, the conversion was genuine; and my greatest pride is in the fact that I lived to know the brave men and women who did so much for the cause..." -
Based on her time as a nurse during the war, Alcott published letters that she sent home from her post as a nurse in Washington, DC during the Civil War.
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At the age of 36, Alcott publishes Little Women.
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This would have been a huge achievement for Alcott and her contemporaries. A year later, women were serving in juries in the territory of Wyoming.
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Two days after her father dies, Alcott dies and is buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetary in Concord, Massachusetts.
