Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

M. Due to all of these pressures writing became a creative and emotional outlet for Alcott. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist.

M. Louisa May Alcott (November 29 1832 – March 6 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. PubliLouisa May Alcottd 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.