Google has rolled out a new doodle to celebrate what would have been the 184th birthday of Louisa May Alcott, the beloved U.S. author who penned the classic children’s novel, Little Women.
Alcott, a suffragist, abolitionist and feminist as well as a writer, was born in Pennsylvania in 1832. She volunteered as a nurse during the American Civil War and was active in the women’s suffrage movement; she became the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Mass.
The March family of Little Women was based on Alcott's family, and the character of Jo was Louisa's vision of herself.
In addition to being a writer, "Alcott was a suffragist, abolitionist, and feminist," Google noted.
Alcott was born in Pennsylvania in 1832. The second oldest of four girls, her family moved to Boston where she grew up among those in the Transcendentalist Movement. Throughout her young life, she took jobs as a teacher and a nurse due to her family's financial troubles. She volunteered as a nurse in the American Civil War and her home was a station on the Underground Railroad
Louisa May Alcott was born November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, which is now part of Philadelphia, according to her biography on the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association’s website.
She was the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, a transcendentalist and educator, and Abby May Alcott, a social worker. Alcott had three sisters, Anna Bronson Alcott, who was older than her, and two younger sisters, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott.
Her family would later serve as part of the inspiration for the Little Women novels.
Alcott and her family moved to Concord, Massachusetts, in 1840, where her training in writing included lessons from Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, according to the memorial association’s website.
She was a tomboy, like the character Jo March in Little Women, according to the biography.
“No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race, and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences,” she once said about her childhood.
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