Life on the road suited the idealistic, optimistic Bronson, but he was a bad salesman and soon found himself in debt. Bronson, a self-educated Romantic, left his Connecticut home as a teenager to become a Yankee peddler, a type of traveling salesman. Louisa May Alcott, circa 1870s Getty Images Louisa's father was a transcendentalistīorn in Pennsylvania in 1832, Louisa was one of four sisters, the daughters of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail “Abba” Alcott. But Louisa’s real-life family, upon whom the book was partly based, was infinitely more complicated - and even more interesting. Louisa had captured the world’s imagination with her tale of the brave, beloved March family, and Little Women - a book about the Civil War–era lives of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March, four sisters who struggle with life, love and friendship - has never been out of print. The “infants” were Louisa’s fans, and ever since the publication of Little Women, they had bombarded her with letters asking for a sequel and demanding to know how much of the book was autobiographical - a question readers still pose today. “Don’t send me any more letters from so cracked girls,” she begged her mother in a letter from Switzerland in 1870. Her latest book, Little Women, was a runaway bestseller - and the constant barrage of fan mail, the visits and the demands on her time had wrecked her already delicate health. But even in the Swiss Alps, the author couldn’t escape the thing that had exhausted her in the first place: her fans. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Louisa May Alcott had come to Europe to rest.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.
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