Louisa May Alcott Her Life, Letters, and Journals

by Louisa May Alcott

Overview

Excerpts from Alcott's journals and letters, in which she ruminates on both her personal life and her literary career. Includes poetry, conversations with her sisters, and negotiations with editors. Alcott destroyed material she thought too personal in her journals and many of her letters, but sufficient content remains to show the talent and influences which produced some of America's favorite stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781410102652
Publisher:	Fredonia Books (NL)
Publication date:	04/28/2003
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.94(h) x 1.04(d)

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Little Women is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.