Louisa May Alcott

Artist

George Kendall Warren Studio, active 1834 - 1884

Sitter

Louisa May Alcott, 29 Nov 1832 - 6 Mar 1888

Exhibition Label

Born Germantown, Pennsylvania

Louisa May Alcott began writing as a young child and turned her facility into a career in her teens when her father, utopian theorist Bronson Alcott, left her family in dire financial straits. Helping to support her family, she published her first book, Flower Fables, in 1854. She served as a nurse during the Civil War, and her memoir Hospital Sketches was published in 1863. Asked by her publisher to write a book for girls, Alcott drew upon her own family experiences to write Little Women (1868). This heartwarming novel chronicles the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they grew up during the Civil War. A success upon its publication, Little Women remains an American literary classic, its popularity so engaging that it has been adapted several times for the silver screen and Broadway.

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

c. 1872

Object number

S/NPG.77.139

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

Photograph

Medium

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

Image: 9.6 x 5.8 cm (3 3/4 x 2 5/16")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Costume\Jewelry\Ring

Printed Material\Papers

Louisa May Alcott: Female

Louisa May Alcott: Communications\Journalist\Editor\Magazine

Louisa May Alcott: Literature\Writer\Novelist

Portrait

Record ID

npg_S_NPG.77.139

Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4500baed0-4b5c-4e7e-8445-a0a0a1a25d3e