For 10 points, name this author who created Beth, Amy, Meg, and Jo in Little Women.
This author started writing to support her family when her father's utopian community Fruitlands failed. Over a century after her death, the manuscript to her thriller A Long Fatal Love Chase was published. She also wrote such works as Hospital Sketches, based on her work as a nurse during the Civil War, but is likely best known for a novel in which Mrs. Kirke's governess marries Professor Bhaer and Beth dies of scarlet fever. For 10 points, name this author who created Beth, Amy, Meg, and Jo in Little Women.
This author started writing to support her family when her father's utopian community Fruitlands failed.
Louisa May {Alcott} [or Flora Fairfield]