From her eleventh year to the month of her death at age fifty-five, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals.
Like her fictional alter ego, Jo March, she was a.
Alcott grew up in a genteel but impoverished household, surrounded by the literary and philosophical elite of nineteenth-century New England, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
She never intended them to be published, but the insights they provide into her remarkable life are invaluable.
From her eleventh year to the month of her death at age fifty-five, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals