Luisa Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, set in the Alcott family house, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experience with her three sisters.
In 1840, after several setbacks with the school, the Alcott family moved to a cottage on 2 acres (8,100 m2) of land, located along the Sudbury River in Concord, Massachusetts. The Alcott family moved to the Utopian Fruitland’s community for a brief interval in 1843-1844 and then, after its collapse, to rented rooms and finally to a home in Concord purchased with her mother's inheritance and financial help from Emerson. They moved into the house they named "Hillside" on April 1, 1845.