... May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on 1832"(i). Soon after her birth, the family moved and settled in Concord, Massachusetts, where Alcott was inspired by fellow authors and neighbors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Thoreau (i). Early in her life Louisa took on a large chunk of the family's financial burden through teaching and her writing. Parton found that due ... moral decisions and struggles. Louisa, the most gifted of the four sisters, compiled this history of her life and used it to establish herself as one of the greatest woman authors in ...

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