Louisa May Alcott Born On This Day


Louisa May Alcott November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888 was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886).

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Helen Keller was born on this day.


Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880.

Famous American woman who, though deaf and blind, became a women’s suffragist and leftist political activist. She published twelve books and a number of articles over the course of her life and was a famous activist.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Was Born On This Day


The first American novel to sell over a million copies. By calling attention to the issue of slavery, it has become a part of our country’s literary and historical heritage.

Stowe was an abolitionist and the author of the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Upon meeting her, Abraham Lincoln allegedly remarked, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: (June 14, 1811- July 1, 1896)

William Butler Yeats Was Born On This Day


W.B. Yeats (June 13, 1865- January 28, 1939)

Poet and playwright William Butler Yeats was the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. A few of his more famous works include The Tower and Deirdre.

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