Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

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.