. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. fouiSA May Alcott, daughter of Amos Bronson and Abigail fM^ (May) Alcott, and the second of the four sisters whom she was afterward to make famous in < Little Women, ^ was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, November 29th, 1832, her fathers thirty-third birthday. On his side, she was descended from good Connecticut stock; and on her mothers, from the Mays and Quincys of Massachusetts, and from Judge Samuel Sewall, who has left in his diary as graphic a picture of the New England home-life of two hundred years ago, as his granddaugh
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. fouiSA May Alcott, daughter of Amos Bronson and Abigail fM^ (May) Alcott, and the second of the four sisters whom she was afterward to make famous in < Little Women, ^ was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, November 29th, 1832, her fathers thirty-third birthday. On his side, she was descended from good Connecticut stock; and on her mothers, from the Mays and Quincys of Massachusetts, and from Judge Samuel Sewall, who has left in his diary as graphic a picture of the New England home-life of two hundred years ago, as his granddaughter of the fifth generation did of that of her own the time of Louisa Alcotts birth her father had charge of a school in Ger-mantown ; but within two years he moved to Boston with his family, and put into practice methods of teaching so far in advance of his time that they were unsuccessful. From 1840, the home of the Alcott family was in Concord, Massachusetts, with the. Louisa M. Alcott. 284 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT exception of a short time spent in a community on a farm in aneighboring town, and the years from 1848 to 1857 in Boston. Atseventeen, Louisas struggle with life began. She wrote a play, con-tributed sensational stories to weekly papers, tried teaching, sewing,— even going out to service,—and would have become an actressbut for an accident. What she wrote of her mother is as true ofherself, <> Herfirst book, < Flower Fables,* a collection of fairy tales which she hadwritten at sixteen for the children of Ralph Waldo Emerson, someother little friends, and her younger sisters, was printed in 1855 andwas well received. From this time until 1863 she wrote manystories, but few that she afterward thought worthy of being re-printed. Her best work from i860 to 1863 is in the Atlantic Monthly,indexed under her name;
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