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How Does Louisa May Alcott's Work Affect Her Work

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Right alongside the woman, students read about today in their textbooks, like Dorothea Dix or Emerson and Thoreau, is Louisa May Alcott. This 19th century author with a modern perspective on life used her unique family dynamic of four sisters to fuel her writing as a passion and career. However, before she was an author she was just a woman. A woman, whose shoulders were burdened expenses and responsibilities of being the breadwinner in her house and financially supporting her family. However, Alcott accepted the struggle and transformed it into success through working various jobs such as, “tailor, laundress, housekeeper, tutor, writer, and editor of Merry's Museum” (Snodgrass). She also did not let the burdens of housework halt her career

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