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Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt (March 16, 1831 – July 17, 1893) was the elder sister of American novelist Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Margaret "Meg" of Little Women (1868), her sister's classic, semi-autobiographical novel.
Anna was the first daughter of Bronson and Abigail May Alcott and the inspiration for Meg March in Little Women. She was a talented actress, a loving wife and mother, and a devoted caregiver to her family.
Dec 1, 2017 · Fans can see a glimpse of Anna Alcott Pratt, who inspired the character of Meg, the eldest of the March sisters in “Little Women.”
Mar 15, 2014 · Learn about the life and personality of Anna Alcott Pratt, the eldest sister of Louisa May Alcott and a devoted teacher and mother. Discover how she influenced Louisa's writing and how she was portrayed in "Little Women".
- Lis Adams
- Jo
- Meg
- Amy
- Beth
- Mr. March
- Marmee
- Laurie
The second-oldest March sister Alcott based on herself. She was an avid runner and tree-climber until the Civil War, when she served as a nurse and contracted typhoid pneumonia. She never fully recovered, and would always be weak. So, while the book portrays Mr. March as a Union Army chaplain in the Civil War who falls ill, requiring Marmee to rush...
The oldest March sister is based on Alcott’s real-life oldest sister Anna Bronson Alcott. She, too, was a rule-follower who accepted the ideals of Victorian womanhood. While proper at social gatherings outside the home, she’d let loose at home or on stage. She and Louisa loved to put on little plays, and they started the Concord Dramatic Union, now...
The youngest March sister is based on the youngest Alcott sister Abigail May, who went by her middle name (Amy spelled backwards). She had a passion for fine arts and fine clothes, but longed for the opportunity to learn more. “Many American art teachers didn’t want their female students to have all of the training that the males did because they t...
The second-youngest March sister is based on Alcott’s sister by the same name, Elizabeth. She was shy in real life, and Alcott apparently talked about her the least in her diaries. She loved kittens, sewing and spending time with her family. As in the book, she does catch scarlet fever after holding an infected baby belonging to a poor family to wh...
Alcott’s real father Amos Bronson Alcott, a progressive educator, was one of the first to advocate for recess and class participation. He was also a transcendental philosopher, the head of a short-lived abolitionist-feminist-anarchist-environmentalist communecalled Fruitlands, and a friend to some of his era’s most significant figures. “Henry David...
Louisa’s mother Abigail May Alcott came from a distinguished Boston family. (Her great aunt Dorothy Quincy married John Hancock, the state’s first governor and signer of the Declaration of Independence). In addition to dutifully supporting her husband, whom she adored, she’s been called a pioneering social worker, between working as a missionary to...
Jo March’s suitor appears to be a composite of two real men, as the author herself revealed. According to Turnquist, she based the “tender, sweet” side of Laurie on Alfred “Alf” Whitman, a cast member of The Concord Dramatic Union, and the “fun, impish” part of Laurie on Ladislas “Laddie” Wisniewski, a Polish young man she met in Switzerland while ...
From Annie Sawyer Downs’s description of life in Concord to Anna Alcott Pratt’s recollections of the Alcott sisters’ acting days to Julian Hawthorne’s neighborly portrait of the Alcotts, the...
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Feb 17, 2012 · Friends and biographers of Anna Alcott Pratt are so busy singing her praises as a loving and selfless daughter, wife and mother that is was hard to find more substantive information. That is, until I came across Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott.
