louisa

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A female given name, a latinized form of Louise used since the eighteenth century

But certainly there are some names which seem to belong to particular classes of character, to form the mind and even influence the destiny: Louisa, now; - is not your Louisa necessarily a die-away damsel, who reads novels, and holds her head on one side, languishing and given to love!.

a latinized form of Louise used since the eighteenth century
{i} female first name
Alcott Louisa May Cavell Edith Louisa Greta Louisa Gustafsson
Louisa May Alcott
{i} (1832-1888) daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, United States novelist who wrote the novel "Little Women" 1868
Louisa May Alcott
a US writer whose novels for children include Little Women and Good Wives (1832-88). born Nov. 29, 1832, Germantown, Pa., U.S. died March 6, 1888, Boston, Mass. U.S. author. Daughter of the reformer Bronson Alcott, she grew up in Transcendentalist circles in Boston and Concord, Mass. She began writing to help support her mother and sisters. An ardent abolitionist, she volunteered as a nurse during the American Civil War, where she contracted the typhoid that damaged her health the rest of her life; her letters, published as Hospital Sketches (1863), first brought her fame. With the huge success of the autobiographical Little Women (1868-69), she finally escaped debt. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886) also drew on her experiences as an educator
Edith Louisa Cavell
born Dec. 4, 1865, Swardeston, Norfolk, Eng. died Oct. 12, 1915, Brussels, Belg. English nurse and heroine of World War I. She began her nursing career in 1895 and in 1907 became first matron of a hospital in Brussels, where she greatly improved the standard of nursing. After the German occupation of Belgium (1914), she became involved in an underground group that helped about 200 Allied soldiers escape to The Netherlands. She was subsequently arrested and executed by the Germans
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