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I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

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
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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List
Love
Lists
Useful
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Independent
Husband
Liberty
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Spinsters

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