.....and I shall think her very mean indeed if she does not give me some of her gloves, for she has many of them, I've seen them myself.......and as you can see, I took the hint.......but not much love went into THAT package did it, my dear?

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.