[Gutenberg 52549] • Bloemensprookjes van Tante Jo

[Gutenberg 52549] • Bloemensprookjes van Tante Jo

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best

known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).

Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up

among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and

Henry David Thoreau.