Alcott in a sentence

She was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest; Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest.

All proceeds from the festival will go towards Alcott’s new Dylan Alcott Foundation, which aims to help kids with disabilities achieve their goals through scholarships, mentoring, grants and other programs.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Hillside, later called the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.

Emma portrays a top actress named Anna Victoria Alcott while Kim portrays a friend and actress Siobhan Walsh.

Acclaimed writers Angela Flournoy and Kathleen Alcott withdrew from the organisation in January after its decision to platform actor Mayum Bailik, a vocal Zionist and opponent to a ceasefire in Gaza, at an event.

American Horror Story: DelicateDanielle Valentine’s book, and follows Anna Victoria Alcott (played by Emma Roberts), an actress who believes there are forces trying to stop her from becoming pregnant.

Even if only some of the works turn out to be Alcott’s, the flurry of excitement generated by Chapnick’s discovery demonstrates once again her relevance in the modern world.

For Chapnick, the collections offer the possibility of finding additional Alcott stories — including those written under other pseudonyms.

Alcott answered her publisher’s requests for a proper, marital ending by having Meg, Jo’s sister, married off, at the conclusion of the first volume.

And to those of us who’d buried Louisa May Alcott’s novel about four rambunctious Civil War-era sisters deep in our cobwebbed memories, it sounded unfamiliar and almost shocking.

Another movie directed by Greta Gerwig, is an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel.

Gerwig has made this homage clear, even including in the film Alcott’s dedication to writing; adapting to be ambidextrous so she could write all through the night, after her right hand became cramped and tired.

What made Alcott happiest was putting his sport on the map again.

Alcott’s rising profile was also no doubt part of the decision to broadcast the quad wheelchair singles final live on free-to-air for the first time.

Alcott was born with lipomeningocele, which caused a large tumor against his spinal cord.

Gerwig’s “Little Women” uses a mix of Alcott’s original dialogue as well as moments taken from her life to find new wrinkles in a classic tale.

In so doing, the March sisters and Alcott's novel became foundational for girls in America, then and now.

It’s dutiful to Alcott in its way, but is sometimes heedless of the potential blindspots of its audience.

My oncologist said that it was huge, and by the time I got to see the oncologist, you could kind of see it coming out,” Alcott said.

Now she’s transformed Louisa May Alcott’s tale of the four March sisters into a warm, lively period drama about the siblings.