Alcott, Louisa May
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| born on | 29 November 1832 at 00:30 (= 12:30 AM ) | ||
| Place | Germantown PA, USA, 39n46, 77w08 | ||
| Timezone | LMT m77w08 (is local mean time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   07°04'   22°56 Asc. 18°29'
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Biography
American writer noted for "Little Women," 1868. A nurse during the Civil War 1861-1865, she became one of America's most famous and beloved writer of children's stories.
Tired of "providing moral pap for the young," Alcott wrote "A Modern Mephistopheles" in 1877. Once secret, her novel is surprisingly erotic. This perception is reinforced by Alcott's own letters, published as "The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott." A self-described "literary spinster," she wrote, "I was born with a boy's nature and have always fought my fight . . . with a boy's spirit."
Literature took the place of love, marriage and children. She called her first book in 1854 her "firstborn."
The dutiful daughter of a idealistic, influential but mostly impoverished Transcendentalist philosopher, Bronson Alcott, she turned out to be a hardheaded Yankee literary entrepreneur. She wrote to her sister Anna in 1854, "I am grubbing away as usual. I have $11, all of my own earnings - $5 for a story and $4 for a pile of sewing I did for the ladies."
Her beloved sister Elizabeth, the model for Beth in "Little Women" died on on March 14, 1858 at 3 AM according to Louisa's journal.
Louisa was an assertive and self-contained woman, an early and ardent feminist who set out to win fortune and fame and was utterly unsurprised when she did so.
Alcott suffered from vertigo and other maladies for many years. About two years before her death she entered a homeopathic nursing home in Boston, complaining of insomnia and lack of appetite. Despite a permanent writer's cramp in her thumb, she was able to complete the final book in the March family saga, "Jo's Boys," 1886 and to write the last book of all, "A Garland for Girls," 1888. She went to see her dying father in Boston on 3/01/1888 and caught a chill. A day or so later she suffered a violent headache, and sinking rapidly, died 3/06/1888, at 3:30 AM, the day of her father's funeral.
Relationships
- parent relationship with Alcott, Amos Bronson (born 29 November 1799)
- sibling relationship with Alcott, May (born 26 July 1840)
- sibling relationship with Alcott, Anna (born 16 March 1831)
- sibling relationship with Alcott, Elizabeth Sewall (born 24 June 1835)
- parent relationship with Alcott, Abigail (born 8 October 1800)
Events
- Death by Disease 6 March 1888 (Cold, flu, age 55)
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1854 (First published)
- Work : New Career 1861 (Nurse, four years)
- Health : Medical diagnosis 1 March 1888 (Caught a chill)
- Death of Sibling 14 March 1858 at 03:00 AM in Concord, MA (Sister Elizabeth)
Source Notes
Worthington "Miss Alcott of Concord", date recorded by her dad
Categories
- Vocation : Medical : Nurse/ Nurse's Aids (Secondary)
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- Family : Childhood : Family noted (Dad)
- Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women
- Family : Childhood : Family close (Supportive)
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Financial success in field
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ feminist
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
- Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Creativity (Writing skills)
- Vocation : Military : Military service (Nurse during the Civil War)
- Lifestyle : Financial : Rags to riches
- Family : Childhood : Order of birth (Second of four girls)
- Vocation : Writers : Children's literature
- Family : Relationship : Married late/never (Never)
- Traits : Personality : Hard worker
- Traits : Personality : Articulate
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Sleep disorders (Insomnia)
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Ears (Vertigo)
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Headaches, severe (Violent)
- Personal : Death : Unusual (Died same day as dad's funeral)
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Eating Disorder (No appetite)
