The author lives in her books and in the love borne her by her readers over more than a century.

Visitors leave votive offerings of notes, pencils, coins, pebbles, flowers and more in thanks to the author.

Louis May Alcott is honored with an American flag on her grave for her service as a nurse during the American Civil War.

She died of a stroke on March 6, 1888, aged 55, two days after the death of her father, Bronson Alcott.

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