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A.B. Alcott supported a woman's right to vote
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Educator Amos Bronson Alcott, Father of Louisa May Alcott, Was Born
November 29, 1799
Often authors base characters in their stories on people they know. The father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was based on her real-life father, Amos Bronson Alcott.An educator and philosopher, Amos Bronson Alcott was born on November 29, 1799, in Wolcott, Connecticut. The son of a poor farmer of flax (a plant that is used in making linen), Alcott was almost completely self-educated. As a young man, he worked as a peddler, handyman, and gardener and read his own selection of English and German literature and philosophy. A modern man for his time, Alcott strongly believed in a woman's right to vote. In a letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leader in the suffrage movement, he wrote "Woman . . . is helping herself to secure her place in a better spirit and manner than any we [men] can suggest or devise. . . ."
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