CHRONOLOGY
It has been particularly the aim of the editors to lift these Little Women Letters out of the biographical and into the narrative class. For this reason dates have not been used with any degree of liberality, and chronological facts have been minimized.
However, as this is a story of the Alcott family, and seekers for definite data will not be lacking, a chronological summary is herewith furnished:
Amos Bronson Alcott . . . . 1799-1888
married
Abby May . . . . . . . . . .1800-1877
Their Children
Anna Bronson . . . . . . . .1831-1893
Louisa May . . . . . . . 1832-1888
Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . 1835-1858
Abby May . . . . . . . . . .1840-1879
Anna Bronson married John Bridge Pratt, 1860.
Their Children
Frederick Alcott . . . . . .1863-1910
John Sewall . . . . . . . . 1865
Abby May married Ernst Nieriker, March,
1878.
Children
Louisa May . . . . . . 1879