Little Women
(Louisa May Alcott)
Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) American writer, whose books for children are characterized by their intimate depiction of family life and loyalties. The daughter of the educator and philosopher Bronson Alcott she was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was raised in Boston and was tutored by the American writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. While serving as a nurse during the American Civil War, Alcott wrote letters to her family that were later published as Hospital Sketches (1863). In order to support her own often poverty-stricken family Alcott also wrote a number of thrillers which were published pseudonymously in various magazines. Her literary output consisted of some 300 titles in different genres but her most famous works Little Women (1868-1869) an autobiographical novel of her childhood, and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886) are considered classics. When she tired of writing literature for children she wrote A Modern Mephistopheles (1877) the story of a young woman's efforts to escape seduction by a diabolic character with whom her husband has made a Faustian pact. This, together with A Whisper in the Dark (1889) a novel with a similar theme, was published posthumously.
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg talented Jo frail Beth spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams plays pranks letters illnesses and courtships women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer Beth's tragedy and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.
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