The Lost Stories Of Louisa May Alcott
by Louisa May Alcott
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From the author of anonymous and pseudonymous tales comes a collection on nine newly discovered stories uncovered by tireless literary detective work.Tags
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I knew that this collection of stories would be vastly different than the world of the Marches. I was right, and while I give credit to Alcott for writing these and things such as A Long, Fatal Love Chase, her strength was in the story of a strongly bonded family
Were there any girls who fell in love with Little Women who didn't want to be Jo? As I grew older I came to realize that Jo was not just my favorite character but that she was the strongest, most well rounded, well thought out character. Jo was Louisa May Alcott in at least several significant ways. I have not yet read a biography, but did enjoy the Introduction in this book by M. Stern. I have to admit that as I'm reading I don't find the short stories to be quite as shocking as she claimed them to be, but times have changed. Here are the wild stories that Jo squeezed out of her pen - the writing of which stopped with the completion and success of Little Women after which she turned to more civilized tales.
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Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Two years later, she moved with her family to Boston and in 1840 to Concord, which was to remain her family home for the rest of her life. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a transcendentalist and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott early realized that her show more father could not be counted on as sole support of his family, and so she sacrificed much of her own pleasure to earn money by sewing, teaching, and churning out potboilers. Her reputation was established with Hospital Sketches (1863), which was an account of her work as a volunteer nurse in Washington, D.C. Alcott's first works were written for children, including her best-known Little Women (1868--69) and Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871). Moods (1864), a "passionate conflict," was written for adults. Alcott's writing eventually became the family's main source of income. Throughout her life, Alcott continued to produce highly popular and idealistic literature for children. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), Under the Lilacs (1878), and Jack and Jill (1881) enjoyed wide popularity. At the same time, her adult fiction, such as the autobiographical novel Work: A Story of Experience (1873) and A Modern Mephistopheles (1877), a story based on the Faust legend, shows her deeper concern with such social issues as education, prison reform, and women's suffrage. She realistically depicts the problems of adolescents and working women, the difficulties of relationships between men and women, and the values of the single woman's life. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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