LOUISA MAY ALCOTTBy: Kate Barlock & Brancifort

EARLY LIFE

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in November 29, 1832

1834 she moved to Boston, Massachusetts, then later to Concord

Grew up with transcendentalists influences from father’s associates

Alcott’s mother, Abigail May, was a Christian women who was a rights activist and an abolitionist

Alcott’s father, Amos Bronson, was a social reformer, philosopher, teacher, and member of the Transcendentalist Club

EDUCATION

Raised by her transcendentalist father Family friends influenced her

Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Attended a small school briefly, but was mostly homeschooled

Influenced religiously by her Christian mother Learned of many social reform movements

from her mother

BEGINNING OF MOVEMENT: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Demands for women’s suffrage began in 1848

Seneca Falls convention jump-started the movement

Rejected Victorian domesticity, which separated women and men in society.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were prominent supporters of women’s suffrage and rights

Became extremely popular by 1910 By 1920, the 19th amendment passed,

granting women the right to vote

CONTRIBUTION: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Alcott’s mother supported women’s rights as well and got Louisa involved

Wrote for "The Woman's Journal" in her later life, a paper supporting women’s rights

Encourage women to register for voting, going door to door in Concord

Relentlessly encouraged voting, even though she had little time to contribute otherwise

Died before the19th amendment passed, but never tired of the movement

Made her female characters embody independence and intelligence

CONTRIBUTIONS: ABOLISTIONIST

Believed slavery was wrong Inherited some beliefs from mother and

father, they influenced her Her mother introduced her to the abolitionist

movement and was the one who started her involvement

Because of their poverty Louisa and some of her siblings would go with them on trips they made to help others

She showed her beliefs through her writings 1847- She had housed a fugitive slave for

one week

EFFECTS

Brought women to vote in Concord Influenced and supported all those who read

“The Women’s Journal”

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Images: http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/alco-lou.htm

(what we think) http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_May_Alcott (first slide)