Abba May Alcott (1800-1877) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Concord, Massachusetts. She worked as a social worker in Boston and was a suffragist and activist for the temperance movement, the poor, and the abolition of slavery. Alcott was the mother of author Louisa May Alcott. She married Amos Bronson Alcott in 1830, and together they collaborated on such projects as the failed utopian community known as Fruitlands and the Temple School. Her husband was an advocate for Mary Baker Eddy's book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

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