Known primarily for her famous novel Little Women, Alcott grew up in New England and began working at a very young age, sometimes as a teacher, sometimes as a writer, and even as a seamstress. His first work was a storybook that he commissioned for the daughter of writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Most of the education he received was obtained from his father, which is explained by the fact that from an early age he shared the ideals of his family, which was transcendentalist, a critical movement that advocated obtaining a particular and individual relationship with the universe.
Born observer and great chronicler, she showed a natural talent for writing things in journalistic style. For a brief period of time working as a nurse in a Georgetown hospital she wrote letters home, which were published in a Union magazine and which earned her her first critical acclaim.
In addition to his writings on reality, he devoted himself to writing passionate novels under a pseudonym. He also wrote stories and short stories for children, and once he began to write them he abandoned adult literature. But her success was launched with the arrival of Little Women, an almost autobiographical novel in which she recounted the experiences of several young girls who were sisters and that more or less recounted their experiences in Concord with their sisters. The play was complemented by a second part in which it dealt with the adulthood of the characters and their lives as married women.
A short time later, he dared with a similar vision from the masculine point of view and wrote Little Men, talking about the way of being of his own nephews, which was followed by Los Muchachos de Jo, which also dealt with the adult stage of the children of the previous novel .
Alcott was very generous and loving, and had a sense of humor that she knew how to translate into her novels in such a way that the reader could soak up her personality. Although she was in poor health, as her time in the hospital during the civil war to work as a nurse cost her mercury poisoning, she continued to write. However, on the same day that his father was being buried, his body could not take it anymore and he passed away at the age of fifty-five, but all his works remained forever in the history of literature.