Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) was an American novelist, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, among the circle of Emerson, Thoreau and her father, Amos Bronson Alcott. She is best known for Little Women (1868–69).

She also wrote poems throughout her life, among them elegies for her Concord neighbours.