Born on November 29
Birthdays of C.S. Lewis and Louisa May Alcott
Two storytellers, one birthday.
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Where it comes from
This Story marks a shared birthday. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on 29 November 1832, and C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast on 29 November 1898. Alcott wrote Little Women in 1868, when her publisher asked for a story for girls, and drew on her own family of four sisters.
How it's celebrated
Readers mark the day by going back to the books. Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, where Alcott wrote and set Little Women, is a museum, and about 80 per cent of the furnishings on display belonged to the family. In east Belfast, C.S.
Did you know
Alcott shared her birthday with her father, Bronson Alcott, who wrote of 'the birth of a second daughter on my own birth-day'.
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