At the age of 15, Louisa May vowed to help her family overcome their destitution.
The family was plagued by poverty and moved 22 times in 30 years in search of work and cheaper housing. While living in Concord, the Alcotts were close friends with fellow Concord writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and this friendship had a direct influence on her desire to be a writer. Louisa May Alcott’s interest in writing began young when she would write stories and plays to help entertain her sisters. Transcendentalism was a literary and philosophical movement during the 1800s that declared knowledge and spirituality could be attained through one’s own intuition rather than traditional teaching methods. The Alcott family believed very strongly in abolitionism and women’s rights as well as transcendentalism.
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