Louisa May Alcott
American
American author, notable for the novel, Little Women - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father Amos Bronson Alcott
- Mother Abigail May Alcott
American author, notable for the novel, Little Women - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1832/11/29 | Louisa May Alcott is born near 5427 Germantown Ave, Germantown, Philadelphia | Born | Germantown | Louisa May Alcott's Birthday | |||
| 1843/06/00 | Amos B Alcott moves his family to Harvard, MA | Home | Fruitlands | Town of Harvard, MA | |||
| 1845/04/01 | The Alcotts move in 'Hillside'. "Close by Emerson's, under the brow of the Hill, lies a very pretty spot - the Boston Road running between the House and the fertile field of 8 acres, every rod of which is adapted to gardening...." - A Alcott | Home | The Wayside | Concord, MA | |||
| 1848/07/00 | During the summer, Louisa tutors the Emerson children, holding classes in the hillside barn. Louisa tells Ellen fairy tales. Several years later these stories will appear in Louisa's first book, Flower Fables. | Work | The Wayside | Concord, MA | |||
| 1858/00/00 | Alcott home 1858-1877 | Home | Orchard House | Concord, MA | |||
| 1862/12/13 | Louisa Alcott becomes a Union nurse at Georgetown's Union Hotel Hospital, Washington, DC (lost). Dorothea Dix assigns her to Matron Hannah Ropes who will die of typhoid fever. Alcott calls it the Hurly Burly Hotel. | Vocation | My Red Cap (Short Story) | Georgetown | |||
| 1863/01/07 | Louisa Alcott contracts typhoid fever | Victim | |||||
| 1864/05/23 | Louisa May Alcott serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. | Mourner | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery | Concord, MA | Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 1867/12/21 | "What the Bell Saw and Said" by Louisa M Alcott is published in the Saturday Evening Gazette, Vol LIII, No 51. Reproduced in Proverb Stories. | Author | What the Bell Saw and Said (short story) | ||||
| 1868/07/00 | Louisa Alcott writes 'Little Women' at Orchard House from May to July, 1868 | Author | Little Women | Orchard House | Concord, MA | ||
| 1868/09/30 | The first volume of "Little Women" by American author, Louisa May Alcott, is published. | Author | Little Women | ||||
| 1869/00/00 | "Scarlet Stockings" by Louisa May Alcott is published. | Author | Scarlet Stockings (Short Story) | ||||
| 1873/12/00 | "Transcendental Wild Oats: A Chapter from an Unwritten Romance" written by Louisa May Alcott about her family's involvement with the Transcendentalist community Fruitlands is first published in a New York newspaper, The Independent. | Author | Fruitlands | Town of Harvard, MA | |||
| 1876/07/00 | As copper is removed from the roof of Old South Meetinghouse, a group of 20 Boston women organize to buy the building and enlist Ralph W Emerson, Julia W Howe, Henry W Longfellow, Louisa M Alcott and Wendell Phillips to rally people to pledge funds. | Benefactor | Old South Meetinghouse | Boston | |||
| 1877/00/00 | Louisa May Alcott purchases a residence, it will become the Alcott family home. | Home | Thoreau-Alcott House | Concord, MA | |||
| 1881/00/00 | "My Red Cap" by Louisa May Alcott is published by The Soldier's Home Bazaar to fund an endowment for the operation of the Massachusetts Soldiers Home in Chelsea. | Author | My Red Cap (Short Story) | ||||
| 1881/12/15 | Louisa Alcott's "A Country Christmas" is published in The Independent, Vol XXXIII, Nos 1724 and 1725 (December 15 and 22, 1881). Reproduced in Proverb Stories. | Author | A Country Christmas (short story) | ||||
| 1882/12/05 | Louisa May Alcott's "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to be True" is published in Harper's Young People, Vol IV, Nos 162 and 163 (December 5 and 12, 1882). Reproduce in Lulu's Library, I. | Author | A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to be True (short story) | ||||
| 1888/03/06 | Louisa Alcott dies of a stroke in Boston, her final resting place is in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery | Died | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery | Concord, MA |
6 Creative Works by Louisa May Alcott »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| What the Bell Saw and Said (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1867/12/21 | |
| Little Women | Author | Book | 1868/09/30 |
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| Scarlet Stockings (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1869/00/00 |
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| My Red Cap (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1881/00/00 |
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| A Country Christmas (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1881/12/15 | |
| A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to be True (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1882/12/05 |
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