Famous women through history: Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was the writter of the famous bestseller: Little Women. She was from the United States, she was born on the 29th of November of 1832 and she died on the 6th of March of 1888, at the age of 55. When she was a teenager, she started to work as a teacher, a dressmaker, a governess and as a writter obviously. In 1860 she started to write for a magazine at the same time she was working as a nurse on a hospital. She also wrote tales for children, which became very popular! But she became famous with his greatest work: Little Women. Which was basically an autobiography of her childhood with her sisters in Massachusetts. This book was full of humour, accuracy, cheek but most of all full of a beautiful romanticism linked to nature and traditional values. Later, she published a second part: Good Wives; which will take her main characters to adult life.

She died because of a poisoning with mercury at the Civil War. She is remembered for the way she put her humour, cheek, romanticism and peace in her books.