A Trip to Boston’s Literary District: Visiting Louisa May Alcott’s Beacon Hill Haunts

By Hannah White
Boston is a city rich in literary history that many famous writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, and Henry David Thoreau once called home. But as I embarked on my short journey to my state’s capital city, I had one woman in mind: Louisa May Alcott. Though she is often associated with the Concord, Massachusetts “Orchard House” that inspired her most famous novel Little Women, Louisa and her family lived in various places in Boston both when Louisa was a young adult and later, at the end of her life.
Alcott has had a resurgence in popularity recently after the 2019 ...