Timeline Tuesday 6 March 1888

Events on Tuesday 6 March 1888 2

• 1832 – 1888 Louisa May Alcott Author of Little Women American novelist, Civil War nurse, abolitionist and suffragist. Raised among the Concord Transcendentalists, she wrote thrillers under a pen name before Little Women made her one of the best-selling authors of her century.
• 1888 Louisa May Alcott dies in Boston Two days after her father She dies aged 55, two days after Bronson Alcott, and is buried on Authors' Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, near Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne.