“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.” Louisa May Alcott, an American author known for her book Little Women, born to a time period where women were just beginning to see a change in their rights. Most, in this generation, must think she had a difficult time making a career due to the limitation on woman’s rights, but some of her works were published under the name Flora Fairfield (Biography). Her works were popular, even back then, and some say she is the mother of all girls’ books. Born on November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott, a transcendentalist philosopher and women’s suffrage (Online-literature), she was the second oldest of four girls; Anna the oldest was born only a …show more content…
Her father was an idealist and often ignored his family’s poverty and in 1940, along with the financial issues with the Temple school which forced the family to move to Concord, Massachusetts, Abigail was born, and is the last of the Alcott girls (Historynet). Her definition of a philospher is, "... a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down" …show more content…
C. (Meigs). During this time, she wrote any letters hoe which were later turned into Hospital Sketches and confirmed her desire to become a writer (Biography). While there, she contracted typhoid fever and the medicine used to treat her contained mercury (Durbin). Due to her conditions caused by the mercury, Alcott was able to leave the line of nursing and continue her writings