Louisa May Alcott
1832 - 1888
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age.Poems
- 'Y' Are The Maiden Posies
- Fragments from "The Mysterious Key And What It Opened"
- French Song
- Healfast, Healfast, Ye Hero Wounds
- Fragments from "Under The Lilacs"
- He Prayeth Best Who Loveth Best
- He That Is Down Need Fear No Fall
- I Slept, And Dreamed That Life Was Beauty
- Give Me Freshening Breeze, My Boys
- I Write About The Butterfly
- Flowers, Dear Flowers, Farewell!
- And If Your Nancy Frowns, My Lad