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Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet better known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults that focused on spies and revenge.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still a popular children's novel today. It has been adapted to film several times.

Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died from a stroke, two days after her father died, in Boston on March 6, 1888.

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Rozeknop

In Rozeknop keren we weer terug naar het weesmeisje Rosa, dat ook de hoofdrol speelde in Een nichtje met zeven neven. In dat boek lazen we hoe Rosa na het overlijden van haar ouders intrekt bij haar oom en tante, die al zeven kinderen hebben: alleen maar jongens.

In dit tweede deel is Rosa al wat ouder, en begint ze wat meer de wereld in te trekken. Ze leert de leuke en minder leuke kanten van het leven als een ontluikende volwassene kennen, compleet met allerlei verwikkelingen op liefdesgebied. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) schreef ook voor volwassenen, maar had vooral veel succes als schrijfster van kinderboeken. Haar bekendste werk is Little Women, een autobiografische roman die nog twee vervolgboeken kreeg, en talloze malen bewerkt is tot toneelstukken en films. Alcott was ook politiek zeer actief en maakte zich onder andere sterk voor vrouwenrechten en afschaffing van de slavernij.
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