Louisa May Alcott Her Life, Letters, and Journals

by Louisa May Alcott

Overview

An intimate portrait of one of America's most beloved writers is revealed in this 1889 work from editor Ednah Dow Cheney. Originally published just a year after Louisa May Alcott's death at the age of 55, this unparalleled collection of Alcott's surviving personal letters and journal entries and the additional biographical commentary from family friend Cheney serve to paint a picture of Alcott's ""true and frank nature"" and ""how faithfully and fully she performed whatever duties circumstances laid upon her."" This important work gives the reader insight into Alcott's life, and portrays how her experiences informed her timeless and much-loved classics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663562203
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	09/03/2020
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults that focused on spies, revenge, and cross dressers.