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Born November 29, 1832 • Germantown • Pennsylvania
Died March 6, 1888 (aged 55) • Boston • Massachusetts
Notable Works “A Long Fatal Love Chase” • “A Modern Mephistopheles” • “An Old-Fashioned Girl” • “Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag” • “Behind a Mask” • “Eight Cousins” • “Jo’s Boys” • “Little Men” • “Little Women” • “Plots and Counterplots” • “Rose in Bloom”
Notable Family Members father Bronson Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott seated at a table, wearing a dark dress with a white lace collar and cuffs, looking to the side in an undated black and white photograph.
Louisa May Alcott, portrait by George Healy; in the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association collection, Concord, Mass.
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