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Elizabeth Sewall Alcott
Elizabeth Sewall "Lizzie" Alcott (June 24, 1835 – March 14, 1858) was one of the two younger sisters of Louisa May Alcott. She was born in 1835 and died at the age of 22.
In her semi-autobiographical novel, ''Little Women'' (1868), Louisa May Alcott represented her sister as Elizabeth. She wrote:
In 1856, Lizzie contracted scarlet fever while helping a poor German family. Although she recovered, she was permanently weakened. Her father Bronson was on a tour of the Western United States and had reached as far as Cincinnati when he heard that Lizzie, known to be ill, had taken a turn for the worse. By February 1858, she refused to take medicine and told her father, "I can best be spared of the four."〔Matteson, John. ''Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father''. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007: 234–235. ISBN 978-0-393-33359-6〕 As time went by, she had grown weaker and thinner. On March 14, 1858, Lizzie Alcott had died in her sleep. She was only 22 years old, about three months shy of her 23rd birthday. On the same day, Louisa wrote in her journal:
At the moment of her death, Louisa, her mother, and the doctor saw a ghost-like mist rising from Lizzie's body. Her funeral was a small affair, with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn serving as pallbearers.〔Matteson, John. ''Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father''. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007: 236. ISBN 978-0-393-33359-6〕 Lizzie was interred at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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