She published her first book, Flower Fables, at the age of 22.Īfter living at the Wayside, which was a safe house on the Underground Railroad, in Concord for seven years, the Alcotts sold the house to Nathaniel Hawthorne and moved to Boston. Louisa May worked as a seamstress, governess and teacher for many years and also became a working author in her early 20s with the publication of her poetry and short stories in various magazines. At the age of 15, Louisa May vowed to help her family overcome their destitution. The family was plagued by poverty and moved 22 times in 30 years in search of work and cheaper housing. While living in Concord, the Alcotts were close friends with fellow Concord writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and this friendship had a direct influence on her desire to be a writer. Louisa May Alcott’s interest in writing began young when she would write stories and plays to help entertain her sisters. Transcendentalism was a literary and philosophical movement during the 1800s that declared knowledge and spirituality could be attained through one’s own intuition rather than traditional teaching methods. The Alcott family believed very strongly in abolitionism and women’s rights as well as transcendentalism.
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