Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832 in Germantown, PA to Amos Bronson Alcott & Abby May Alcott. Her siblings were Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Anna Alcott Pratt, and Elizabeth Sewall Alcott. The Alcott’s were a poverty stricken family but they were rich in the areas of family unity and intellectuality. When she was 8 she would keep a journal, documenting her excitements, her states, and her trouble monitoring her anger. While a little girl she was drawn to become anti-slavery because while she was a seven year old girl she opened an unused oven in her house and it was a runaway slave. The slave and Alcott continued to keep in touch through letters. When she was growing up she was always a tomboy she wasn’t girly like her sisters and she didn’t have many girlfriends. Unlike most authors Alcott did not go to school she was homeschooled by her father …show more content…
Alcott used her gift of writing to provide money for her family because her father was unable to since the school that he had tried to open up was successful for the first six years but it soon failed and he had put a lot of money into the school and when it failed he lost all of his money. So being the oldest in the house she decided to start taking care of kids, sewing, and teaching younger kids. After those responsibilities fell through she decided to pick writing back up and she published Flower Fables. When she first wrote Little Women it was originally published in two different parts the first part was Little Women: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. The Story of Their Lives, A Girl’s Book, Published in 1868. In 1869 Alcott published Good Wives the second half of the book, there is a quote from little women that caught my attention “We’ll all grow up some day; we might as well know what we want.” - Amy, Little men (or Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys) was published in 1871. Little Men along with Jo’s Boys were not Alcott’s most popular
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811. Her father was Lyman Beecher, pastor of the Congregational Church in Harriet’s hometown of Litchfield, Connecticut. Harriet’s brother was Henry Ward Beecher who became pastor of Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church. The religious background of Harriet’s family and of New England taught Harriet several traits typical of a New Englander: theological insight, piety, and a desire to improve humanity (Columbia Electronic Library; “Biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe”).
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks historically known as Rosa Parks, was born February 4,1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama and past away from natural causes at age 92, on October 24,2005 in Detroit, Michigan. Parks lived with her mother Leona McCauley and her father James McCauley. Ater on in 115 her brother was born Sylvester Parks her only sibling.Both of park’s parents worked, her mother was employed as a teacher and her father was employed as a carpenter . Some time later after Parks’s brother was born her mother and father separated. Once the separation was final, Parks moved with her mother to Pine Level, Alabama while her brother and father moved to Montgomery, Alabama. parks was homeschooled by her mother until age 11 and attended Industrial
Instead, she was home schooled and taught mostly by her Transcendentalist father, a “tall, handsome young schoolteacher with radical ideas” who “had little notion of how to support a family” (Goodwin). As a result, Alcott spent most of her childhood in a state of relative poverty, because her father put money into projects and experiments that were much more idealistic than realistic. Alcott took it upon herself to supplement her family’s income, and she accomplished this by working as a seamstress, a household servant, and a teacher (Gribben 338). Early on in her life, Louisa May Alcott expressed a penchant for writing. Themes of her writing included transcendentalism, family, responsibility, charity, sacrifice, and feminism.
Louisa May Alcott was a great writer of her time and is the perfect example of
Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia on February 9,1944, she is the eighth and youngest child of Minnie Tallulah Grant Walker and Willie Lee Walker. He parents worked as sharecroppers. Not only did she grow up poor but in a violent and racist environment, this left a permanent impression on her writing.
Alcott grew up in a poor family with three sisters. Early on in her life, she was forced to work as a teacher, nanny, seamstress, and at other odd jobs in order to help support her family. Her education came mainly from her father, Bronson Alcott, who was a teacher, philosopher, and vegan. From him Alcott obtained her transcendentalist beliefs and gained many of her ideas, techniques, and most likely her power of rhetoric. She possessed an independent spirit and was sometimes rebellious against the standards of society and the restrictions that they put on her as a woman.
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Harriet Tubman was born in 1820, in Maryland. She had been through a lot in her life. During her early years as a child in slavery, she suffered more than an average person in their entire lifetime. As an adult, she risked her life almost every day to save others and after she died, she has received many awards, including her beating Andrew Jackson to be the face of the $20 bill. Her time in slavery gave her the determination and inspiration to be one of the conductors on the Underground Railroad and being a famed abolitionist, not to mention her recognition and tales told about her after she died. But what led Harriet Tubman to be such an influential figure in US history?
Alice Walker pours events and conflicts from her life into her works, using her rural roots as settings and Ebonics she brings her stories to life. Everyday Use and The Color Purple reflected the negative views Alice walker took upon herself because of her deformity. While also showing how things were in the Jim Crow era; where African-Americans were not afforded the same opportunities of whites. These two works explore events from her entire family, not just events she faced solely on her own. While also having the same rural setting as Walker’s Georgia upbringing. In this paper, I will go into detail of Alice’s two works Everyday Use and The Color Purple and what events are reflected in these works.
Louisa May Alcott was born in a poor but full of love family. She grew up with the kindness of her father and loveliness of her mother. Louisa May Alcott’s father was a writer, and a great influence on her. Her mother was a pioneer in the women’s suffrage and abolitionist movement. Louisa showed interest in writing when she was the child. She used her father’s dictionary and philosophy book to study when no one saw (Delamar 3-5). Her family moved many times, and only when she got fourteen, she had her first personal room (Shealy xix). Louisa May Alcott and her three sisters got education at home by her father. In spite of her poor and hard life, she tried to overcome hardships.
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. Louisa wasn’t like every other girl in her time in fact she was nothing her family and nineteenth century New England required her to be as a young girl. She stated “no boy could be my friend until I had beaten him in a race and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences, and be a tomboy.” In all she was her own person or as she was taught to see it willful, selfish, and proud (Bronson Alcott). She was the second of four girls born to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May. Her father was a transcendentalist, philosopher, and educational experimenter, and her mom stayed home and raised her and her sisters on practical Christianity.
Austen was raised in an unusually liberal family where her father was a part of the middle-landowning class. They had a moderate amount of luxuries, but were not considered well off. Unlike many girls of her time Austen received a fairly comprehensive education. She received this mainly through the undivided support of her family. Austen and her sisters, like most girls of their time, were homeschooled. Austen’s zealous parents encouraged the girls to play piano, read and write. Her parent’s encouragement led to her interest in writing. Austen’s father housed an extensive library filled with books which kept Austen occupied for years (“Sense and Sensibility” 119). Through her observant nature and passion to read and write, Austen was able to eloquently write of the many “hidden truths” of social and class distinction during her time. They included daily societal changes some of which foreshadowed future societal leniency. Familial support also extended societal norm of marriage. Her parents attempt...
Louisa May Alcott tells the story of family growing together in her novel Little Women. The four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy all mature in different ways over the course of the novel. Meg and Amy both deeply concern themselves with looks and reputation at the beginning of the book, but as the story progresses, each of these characters develops into women with unselfish
Little Women was published in 1868, just a few short years after the Civil War that had devastated the country came to an end. People across the nation were trying to come to terms with emancipation and its implications, and many felt somewhat lost after witnessing the gruesome ideological struggle. In Little Women, Louisa May Alcott attempts to guide the nation’s children through this delicate period of social upheaval by giving them a moral guide to follow.