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Little Women
Full Cast Dramatic Reading
Narrator Elizabeth Klett, Arielle Lipshaw, Karen Savage, Kara Shallenberg, Bruce Pirie, Amy Gramour, Phil Chenevert, David Lawrence, Tom Crawford, Denny Sayers, Henry Frigon, Nadine Eckert-Boulet, John Croudy, Peter Bishop, John Fricker and E. Lee
Published by: Engage Books
Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Hillside, later called the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, filmed several times. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888.