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How Louisa May Alcott's Real-Life Family Inspired 'Little Women'
Louisa May Alcott had come to Europe to rest. But even in the Swiss Alps, the author couldn’t escape the thing that had exhausted her in the first place: her fans.
Her latest book, Little Women, was a runaway bestseller — and the constant barrage of fan mail, the visits and the demands on her time had wrecked her already delicate health.
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“Don’t send me any more letters from so cracked girls,” she begged her mother in a letter from Switzerland in 1870. “The rampant infants must wait.”
The “infants” were Louisa’s fans, and ever since the publication of Little Women, they had bombarded her with letters asking for a sequel and demanding to know how much of the book was autobiographical — a question readers still pose today.
Louisa had captured the world’s imagination with her tale of the brave, beloved March family, and Little Women — a book about the Civil War–era lives of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March, four si