HUNTING FOR LOUISA

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Answers:

1. Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

2. The Alcott's lived in Orchard House from 1858 to 1877.

3. The sequel to Eight Cousins is Rose in Bloom.

4. Some of Louisa May Alcott's pen names include: A.M. Barnard, Aunt Weedy, Flora Fairfield, Oranthy Bluggage and Minerva Moody.

5. Louisa May Alcott went to Washington, D.C. in 1862 to serve as a nurse to soldiers wounded in the American Civil War.

6. A "Perilous Play" is a story about the effect of drugs on people and how they can damage judgement. The protagonists are in a ship when they are high on hash-hish, which makes for very dangerous sailing.  I think that if they weren't under the influence of drugs while sailing the story would be titled differently. (Other opinions are also okay)

7. (This is a question of opinion and allows students to express their opinions. These are mine) "I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it." I feel that this quote is very appropriate for a lot of people because many people bottle up their feelings and don't learn how to express and don't want to, which is a learned response pushed on us by society.

8. Poems: "Fairy Song", The Flower's Lesson", "In the Garret". Stories: "Anna's Whim", "The Baron's Gloves", "By the River". Plays: "Bandit's Bride", "Bianca", "The Greek Slave". Novels: An Old Fashioned Girl and Under the Lilacs

9. An Intimate Anthology by Louisa May Alcott.

10. Author who produced the first literature for the mass market of juvenile girls in the 19th century.

BIG QUESTION

Louisa May Alcott is the author of Little Women as well as several other literary works. She was a female author in the 19th century and is mostly famous for her work on Little Women and other juvenile fiction.