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Louis Alcott America Novelist Women Writer Domestic Novels

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, best known for "Little Women" (1868), who also penned "A Modern Mephistopheles" (1877) about a woman resisting a Faustian pact.

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, famous for "Little Women" (1868), and also wrote "A Modern Mephistopheles" (1877), about resisting temptation.

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America novelist
little women 1868
writer of domestic novels
a modern Mephistopheles 1877, in which an innocent young woman resists seduction by the diabolic genius with whom her poet husband has made a Faustian pact

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