Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Alcott was a best-selling novelist of the late 1800s, and many of her works, most notably Little Women, remain popular today.

Alcott was taught by her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, until 1848, and studied informally with family friends such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker.

Alcott worked as a domestic servant and teacher, among other positions, to help support her family from 1850 to 1862. During the Civil War, she went to Washington, D.C. to work as a nurse.

Which is related to one of her interesting fact.

When she is doing nursing, She comforted dying soldiers and helped doctors perform amputations. During this time, she wrote about her experiences in her journal and in letters to her family. She used these letters as a reference to write a book called Hospital Stretch.

She also once have a pen name called A.M. Barnard.

Her famous work, Little Woman, was wrote for her father. She refused to write a girl’s story because she was a tomboy. However, the editor offer that he can publish her father’s philosophy manuscript, so she finally agree.

In the 1870s, Alcott wrote for a women’s rights periodical and went door-to-door in Massachusetts to encourage women to vote. Alcott becomes the first woman registered in Concord to vote. The Nineteenth Amendment was finally ratified in 1920, decades after Alcott died.

Her famous work must be Little Women.
It is a story about four sisters.
Due to the four sister’s father was involved in America Civil War, they have to face the first Christmas by themselves. This thing as a juncture lead them to meet their love and their own achievements.
Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success with readers demanding to know more about the characters.

The quote that I like the best is that.

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

Little Women is a very inspiring work to me. I have read this novel already, before I even see the drama that present by our school theatre department.

Every character let me learn something. Amy inspire me the most. Although some people consider that she become a member of the upper class because she may to Laurie who is very rich. In my opinion, it is not. Everyone have a dream of being better, have a higher position, and get more respect. It is very common and we should not judge it. In the book, Amy is keeping practicing herself to have elegant manners, and to have reliant ability. More importantly, the value of Amy is changing. She wants money simply at the first, then she knows that she needs to be good enough to have those money.

So at the end I of the story, Laurie fall in love with Amy, and wealth chooses Amy, only because she deserve it.

In stead of dreaming for a better future and doing nothing for the goal, Alcott teaches us that we should improve ourselves first to make ourselves deserve the things we will have in the future.

How does the series of Little Women, Little Man, and Jo’s Boys influence people’s view on both scientific and spiritual education?

First, in the spiritual aspect, we can see Alcott promotes the moral principles of honesty, obedience, longsuffering contentment and industriousness, which are highlighted in Little Women series. These principles highlight the importance of family honor and material. Also, there are manifestations of spiritual independence in the March girls and their children.

In the science aspect, Alcott promotes selective embrace of some of the beliefs, goals, and methods of advocates of science education. Ultimately, Alcott questions how much control an educator, even the perfect educator, has over his/her students, valuing both Scientific and domestic knowledge but unable to reconcile the two.

Finally she comes to the clue that science, knowledge, and family should be separated in order to avoid occurrences that people ignore the family life instead of science study.