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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| "A Country Christmas" is published. | Author | A Country Christmas (short story) | |||||
| "What the Bell Saw and Said by" is published. | Author | What the Bell Saw and Said by (short story) | |||||
| 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 | Harvard | |||
| 1845/04/00 | Alcott home from April 1845 to November 1848 | Home | The Wayside | Concord | |||
| 1858/00/00 | Alcott home 1858-1877 | Home | Orchard House | Concord | |||
| 1862/12/13 | Louisa Alcott becomes a Union nurse at Georgetown's Union Hotel Hospital, Washington, DC. Dorothea Dix assigns her to Matron Hannah Ropes who would die of typhoid fever. Alcott call it the Hurly Burly Hotel. | Vocation | Georgetown | ||||
| 1863/01/07 | Louisa Alcott contracts typhoid fever | Victim | |||||
| 1868/07/00 | Louisa Alcott writes 'Little Women' at Orchard House from May to July, 1868 | Author | Little Women | Orchard House | Concord | ||
| 1868/09/30 | The first volume of "Little Women" is published. The second volume was published 1869. | Author | Little Women | ||||
| 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 | Harvard | |||
| 1876/07/00 | As copper is removed from the roof of Old South Meetinghouse, a group of 20 Boston women organize buy the building. They 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 home, becomes the Alcott family home | Home | Thoreau-Alcott House | Concord | |||
| 1885/00/00 | Louisa May Alcott's "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to be True" is published. | 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 |
4 Creative Works by Louisa May Alcott »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| A Country Christmas (short story) | Author | Short Story | ||
| What the Bell Saw and Said by (short story) | Author | Short Story | ||
| Little Women | Author | Book | 1868/09/30 |
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| A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to be True (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1885/00/00 |