Invincible Louisa
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Invincible Louisa is a biography by Cornelia Meigs that won the Newbery Medal and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. It retells the life of Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women.
Invincible Louisa
Elizabeth Sewall Alcott
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Elizabeth Sewall Alcott was one of the two younger sisters of Louisa May Alcott. She was born in 1835 and died at the age of 22 from scarlet fever.
Invincible Louisa
…recounts some of the events Louisa later used in Little Women, including meetings of the Pickwick Club and the death of one of Louisa's younger sisters, Elizabeth. Louisa later leaves the family to earn her own way writing and teaching. During the Civil War she travels to Washington, DC to nurse soldiers. The…
Elizabeth Alcott was fictionalized as Beth March in Little Women (1868).
Louisa May Alcott, c. 1870 Warren's Portraits, Boston