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Louisa is born
Louisa was born the 29 November of 1832 in Pennsylvania and she grew up in Massachusets. She was the second of four sisters. Her mother had lots of works but she didn't earn money and her father was an eccentric philosophist. -
Louisa starts to write
Louisa started to write at the age of 8. Her dad had introduced her to famous writters and she got inspired. However, she was a different girl because she didn't wanted to play the same as the other girls and wanted to play with the boys or write. She also enjoyed doing plays withe her sisters. -
Louisa makes a promise to herself
At the age of 15, Louisa promises herself to take off her family from poverty by working hard to earn money. -
Louisa became A. M. Benard
At the age of 20, Louisa started writing melodramatic stories under the male name of A. M. Benard. Those stories were about taboo topics of the age like incest and adultery. -
Louisa loses a sister
When Louisa was 25 years old, her sister Elizabeth died because of an unidentificated illnes. -
Louisa turns into a nurse
During the Civil War, Louisa became a nurse to help the soldiers and she write a book about her experience in the front called "Hospital Sketches" and it was published under her real name. -
Louisa writes "Little Women"
At the age of 35, Louisa was told to write a "girl's book" for a famous editorial. She spent three months to write her famous book "Little Women" and it was the first book with independent, female main characters. It was sold out in less then two weeks and their fans wanted more sequels. -
Louisa helps her family
With the money erned from "Little Women", she could help her family to step off the poverty and she started helping more at housework. -
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Louisa becomes an activist
From the 1870s to the 1880s, Louisa became a feminist activist and fight for the right of vote for the women. In fact, when the female vote became legal in Massachusets, she was the first woman to register. -
Louisa loses another sister
In the 1879, Louisa's youngest sister, May, died and she took care of her sister's daughter. -
Louisa dies
Louisa had had lots of chronicles sicknes along her whole life, like headaches, vertigo and rheunatism. In 1888 she had a stroke and died at the age of 55. She was buried in Sleepy Hollow cementery, in Massachusets, like the famous writers she met during her childhood.