[F]or in this queer world of ours, fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles and maiden aunts; and it is my private opinion that these worthy creatures are a beautiful provision of nature for the cherishing of other people's children. They certainly get great comfort out of it, and receive much innocent affection that otherwise would be lost.

M. Due to all of these pressures writing became a creative and emotional outlet for Alcott. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist.

M. Louisa May Alcott (November 29 1832 – March 6 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. PubliLouisa May Alcottd in 1868 Little Women is set in the Alcott family home Orchard House in Concord Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.