Louisa May Alcott was revolutionary for her time. She stood up for rights of all people, especially single women. She accomplished many things in her life, and is a hero for women to this day. Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832. Her parents were Amos Bronson Alcott and Abby May Alcott. She was the youngest of three girls. Growing up, she had to help support her family financially. Her father ran a school that needed constant attention after her family insisted on letting a black student attend. When the Civil War began, Louisa became a nurse for the soldiers. She cleaned the soldiers’ wounds and spoon-fed the very weak and injured soldiers. According to her, the hardest part of her job was writing letters to the families of the soldiers who had died in her care.…show more content… When she made these books, however, she used them as a way to write messages to single women. At that time the only goal in a woman’s life was to get married and raise children, and Louisa disagreed that a woman’s life had to be that way. She felt women should be able to make their own choices in life. Little Women, her most famous book, supported women’s equality by saying that females could lead any life they wanted, which was very rare for the time. The female characters in Little Women deviated from stereotypes by being strong, intelligent, and
