Louisa May Alcott is the daughter of Bronson Alcott.
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"If Mr. Twain cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had best stop writing for them."
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Louisa May Alcott grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, the daughter of Bronson Alcott, a well-known transcendentalist, philosopher, and educator. The family's home was a stop on the Underground Railroad, and Alcott's father insisted that she and her sisters always be clothed in linen because linen did not exploit the slaves who picked cotton. The Alcott sisters were educated at home, and were introduced to some of the great thinkers of the times including Emerson and Thoreau. To assist with the fa more...
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11/29/1832 Pennsylvania, Middle Atlantic States, Northeastern States, United States,
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read this as a wee child, very good wholesome book