[Letters] / L. M. Alcott.

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[Letters] / L. M. Alcott.

Letter [1876] Nov. 26 to Miss Holly (Sallie Holley). Published in: The selected letters of Louisa May Alcott / eds. Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy (1987), p. 218. Letter [n.d.] to Miss Pratt, Concord, Mass. Autograph fragment, signed. "Medford, Mass." on verso. n.d. Photograph, n.d.

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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the for her novel Little Women (1868) and the sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Born in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May. Like her famous literary counterpart, Jo March, she was the second of four daughters. The eldest, Anna Bronson (Al...

Pratt, Mary Christine

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Holley, Sallie, 1818-1893

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Caroline F. Putnam was born in Massachusetts on July 29, 1826, and entered Oberlin College in 1848. There, she became involved in the abolitionist movement and met Sallie Holley (1818-1893), a fellow abolitionist who became Putnam's lifelong friend. After their graduation, the two women traveled around the northern United States to raise support for abolitionism, and both grew interested in the welfare of freed slaves during the early years of the Civil War. In 1868, Putnam opened the Holley Sch...