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Photographic portrait, circa 1870Warren’s Portraits, Boston; restoration by Adam Cuerden · Public domain

Louisa May Alcott

American writer whose family fiction examines ambition, work and disappointment through particular characters. Follow their changing choices before extracting general advice.

1832 AD – 1888 AD · 172 collected ↗