Louisa may alcott 1832-1888
biographical information
her homes
louisa may alcott was born on november 29, 1832, in germantown, pennsylvania. when she was almost 2 years old, louisas family moved to massachusetts, the state where she lived the bulk of her life. the family moved many times over the years, usually back and forth between boston and concord mass.. some notable places louisa lived were fruitlands in harvard, massachusetts hillside in concord and orchard house, also in concord. fruitlands was the site of her fathers attempt at utopian living, which she wrote about in transcendental wild oats, thirty years later in 1873. louisas childhood at hillside later renamed wayside by nathaniel hawthorne, when he lived there served as the basis for the action in her most popular novel, little women, which she wrote as an adult living in orchard house. interestingly, these latter two houses were located next door to each other, with a walking path through the woods bet...