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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 65th day of the year.
On this day in 1888, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle ran the obituary of Louisa May Alcott, famed author of “Little Women.” The obit stated that Alcott’s success had not been immediate, and for the 15 years before the widely successful “Little Women” published in 1867, she had supported herself as a teacher and volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War. Alcott later wrote other books, including “Little Men,” “Proverb Stories” and “Spinning Wheel Stories.” Born on her father’s birthday of Nov. 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, she was evidently very close with him. Her father Amos Bronson Alcott was an American teacher, writer, philosopher and reformer. She died shortly after he did, both in early 1888.
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