In the early of her career, Alcott sometimes used the pen name A·M·Barnard. Her first book was Flower Fables (1849). In 1857, Alcott was impressed by Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte Brontë and went through her hard times in 1850s. In the 1860s, Alcott started to receive controversial success for her writing. When the American Civil War broke out, she served as a nurse in the Union Hospital and later published Hospital Sketches (1863). After two years, in 1865, her novel Moods was also published which based on her own experience. Alcott became more successful with the publication of the first part of Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (1868), which was a semi-autobiographical on account of her childhood with her sisters in Concord, and the second part of Little Women named Good Wives (1869). This novel was very well received and is still a popular children’s novel today. Its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886) completed the “March Family Sage”. Her eminent works were Old Fashion Girl, Works and Work: A Story of Experience and so on. All her works have brought her a great deal of reputation and also have attracted many scholars to make researches on Louisa May Alcott and her works.