American novelist, short story writer, and poet Louisa May Alcott died #OTD in 1888. In 1860, Alcott began writing for the Atlantic Monthly. In the mid-1860s she wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensation stories akin to those of English authors Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon under the nom de plume A. M. Barnard. Alcott achieved further success with the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868).
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