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Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet better known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults that focused on spies and revenge.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still a popular children's novel today. It has been adapted to film several times.

Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died from a stroke, two days after her father died, in Boston on March 6, 1888.

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Abbedens genfærd

Det er jul, og på det gamle Treherne Abbey - et ombygget kloster med eget spøgelse – samles familien Treherne med nogle få venner for at fejre jul og nytår. Der er den gamle enkefrue, hendes søn sir Jasper, datteren Octavia og sir Jaspers fætter, den invalide Maurice; og gæsterne er søstrene Rose og Blanche, Frank Annon, der ligesom Maurice er dybt forelsket i Octavia Treherne, den inkarnerede ungkarl major Royston, og endelig den gamle general Snowdon og hans unge, smukke og intrigante hustru Edith, der har en fortid.

Da Edith Snowdon søger at afpresse sir Jasper og Maurice ved at udnytte et tidligere stormfuldt forhold til de to, er der lagt op til en rigtig engelsk juleintrige à la Wilkie Collins og M. E. Braddon.

"Abbedens genfærd" er skrevet under pseudonymet A. M. Barnard, som Louisa May Alcott især i sin tidlige forfatterkarriere benyttede, når hun skrev for et mere voksent publikum end læserne af de pigebøger, der gjorde hende berømt.

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