Good wives. Olcott L.M.

Before becoming the world-famous author of literature for youth, Louise May Olcott (1832-1888) worked as a nurse during the Civil War, fought with slavery, was one of the first participants in the movement for the granting women of suffrage. Starting to write children's books, it reached unprecedented glory and wealth. She looked at the world and wrote about him in the same way as she lived - with faith in the future, with love and compassion for people. Fidelity of life truth and high ideals, humor and unquenchable optimism inherent in her work will always attract young and adult readers to her books.