How Does Louisa May Alcott's Growing Up Impact Her Work?

Louisa May Alcott, an author best known for her Little Women series, has written many other short stories that can relate back to her life. Living an impoverished life while growing up impacted her writing immensely. There are simple relations from Alcott’s life to her writing, including how she had three sisters and in both of the short stories that I read there are sisters or a group of girls involved, “Three little Fairies sat in the fields eating their breakfast; each among the leaves of her favorite flower, Daisy, Primrose, and Violet, were happy as Elves need be.” (The Frost-King; or, The Power of Love) Another simple connection is that in both stories that I read it focuses around elves which are usually depicted as living in a forest. When Louisa May Alcott was growing up she grew up in a home that was

Another piece from the story, The Flower’s Lesson, “And proudly she cried, “These fireflies shall be My jewels, since the stars can never come to me.”” I think this relates back to Alcott’s personal life because when she was growing up they never had a lot of money and in the story it talks about how the elves have to use their imaginations to create jewels since they can never have them through other means. From Educator Amos Bronson Alcott, Father Of Louisa May Alcott, Was Born it states, “Alcott believed that education should be a pleasant experience, and he included physical education, dance, art, music, nature study, and daily journal writing in the course of studies he established at his school.” This relates back to Louisa May Alcott because her father believed in writing everyday, and since he practiced his techniques on his own family, she must have had a lot of practice which led to her becoming such an amazing and famous