Little Women, By Louisa May Alcott Douglas tells readers that, “Louisa 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 …showed first 75 words of 1706 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1706 total…well, as she herself would have done the same, being the real-life Jo. Throughout the novel, Little Women, Alcott draws on the similarities on characters in her own life, autobiographical events and the emotions felt by herself in order to create a more believable and touching story for her readers. Had Louisa May Alcott not lived the life that she did, the novel Little Women may not have been remembered as long as it has.