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Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
Novelist
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Rome took all the vanity out of me for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
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...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
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