This author, who wrote about Rosamond Vivian in A Long Fatal Love Chase and about Civil War nurse Tribulation Periwinkle in Hospital Sketches, satirized her family's time in (*) Fruitlands in Transcendental Wild Oats.
The protagonist of one novel by this author falls in love with the Catholic priest Father Ignatius and drowns while attempting to escape from her bigamous ex-husband, the curiously Mephistophelean Philip Tempest. Nat Blake, Tommy Bangs, and "Demi" Brooke are among the students at the Plumfield school in another novel by this author. This author, who wrote about Rosamond Vivian in A Long Fatal Love Chase and about Civil War nurse Tribulation Periwinkle in Hospital Sketches, satirized her family's time in (*) Fruitlands in Transcendental Wild Oats. Her best-known novel opens with its protagonists giving their Christmas breakfast to the poor Hummel family and sees one character fall through thin ice, only to be rescued by her future husband Laurie. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Beth, Meg, Jo, and Amy March in Little Women.
The protagonist of one novel by this author falls in love with the Catholic priest Father Ignatius and drowns while attempting to escape from her bigamous ex-husband, the curiously Mephistophelean Philip Tempest.
Louisa May Alcott