Louisa May Alcott Research Paper

Louisa May Alcott was a woman that died at a young age and did many things to help with women’s suffrage rights. Louisa was also a very well-known author. The women’s suffrage was where women couldn’t vote and couldn’t do anything political. Louisa May Alcott, while being an author, helped support her family, and was a big part in the beginning of equal rights for women. For one thing, Louisa May Alcott’s childhood was difficult, but it was also good at the same time. Louisa and her three siblings were taught how to read and write by their father. Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa’s father, worked while teaching his own children to get schools set-up for others. “Alcott realized early that her father was too impractical to provide for his wife and four daughters; after the failure of Fruitlands, a utopian community that he had founded, Louisa

“Alcott wrote under various pseudonyms and only started using her own name when she was ready to commit to writing” (Biography.com) During the Civil War, Louisa volunteered as a nurse. While working as a nurse, she wrote her first big story, “Hospital Sketches”. The story is what made Louisa realize that she wanted to be a serious author. While working as a nurse, she got typhoid and had to be sent home, after being sent home is when she started to write “Little Women”. “The great success of Little Women (1869–70) gave Alcott financial independence and created a demand for more books” (Biography.com). Until the day, Louisa died, she constantly wrote books, because of how popular and famous her book Little Women, got her. Later on down the road, Louisa starts to become involved with the women’s suffrage and helps her mother, who is very dedicated to it, with it. Louisa, being an author that was very well known, writes in “The Woman’s Journal”, and during the time it was the most famous suffrage paper