Excerpts from the author's diaries, written between the ages of eleven and thirteen, reveal her thoughts and feelings and her early poetic efforts.
The 19th-century author of LITTLE WOMEN, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals. Like her fictional alter ego, Jo March, Alcott was a free spirit who longed for independence.
B. Alcott, “Researches on Childhood,” as quoted in Charles Strickland's essay: “A Transcendentalist Father,” in Perspectives in American History, Vol. III, 1969, p. 49. ... Ednah D. Cheney, p. 27. Strickland, “A Transcendentalist Father ...
—A. BRONSON ALCOTT, “To Junius Alcott,” June 30, 1842 'HE CONCORD RIVER, WHICH FLOWS BY THE TOWN THAT bears its name, was known to the native tribes as Musketaquid, L or Meadow River, because of the flat grasslands that lined its banks.
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Now, at the end of the twentieth century, Alcott's vast body of work is being celebrated alongside the greatest American writers, and this collection shows why.
Traces the life of the author of the well-loved stories of the March sisters, "Little Women" and its sequels.
Continue your journey in the Women’s Voices series with Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte (ISBN: 978-1-4236-5099-7), The Feminist Papers, by Mary Wollstonecraft (ISBN: 978-1-4236-5097-3), Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, the complete poems ...
An account of the life of Louisa May Alcott explores her life in the context of her works, all of which are to some extent autobiographical.
A deluxe single-volume edition of Alcott's classic Little Women trilogy is complemented by the stories' original first-edition illustrations, some of which where drawn by the author's sister May, who inspired the character of Amy.
In Behind a Mask, editor Madeleine Stern introduces four Alcott thrillers: "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," "The Mysterious Key," "The Abbot's Ghost," and the title story, "Behind a Mask.