Louisa May Alcott: Life, Writing, and Little Women

How she overcame poverty through writing and following her dream.

Louisa May Alcott by George Kendall Warren, Public domain / composition by Vanessa K Eccles

​”I will do something by-and-by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family, and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t.”

These are the words of young Louisa May Alcott, a determined woman who sought to pull her family from poverty in a…