She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there’s no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says what she means, looks you straight in the eye, and is as true as steel.

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.