American Legends: The Life of Louisa May Alcott

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*Includes pictures of Alcott and important people and places in her life.
*Includes several quotes from Alcott’s journals and passages from her famous works.
*Includes a Bibliography of books by Alcott and about Alcott for further reading.
*Includes a Table of Contents.

“I imagine that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we don’t seem to be going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.” – Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a travel, whilst learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) was some of the best authors of her day, but despite the fact that she’s remembered primarily for being a late 19th century novelist, she was also a progressive Transcendentalist. Though Alcott is not as well known as writers like Thoreau and Emerson, and she lacked the advocacy work of women like Susan B. Anthony, she used her pen to help push for change on the foremost social issues of the day, including gender equality and abolition.

Alcott managed to make semi-autobiographical works popular among audiences of all ages. Her most critically acclaimed work is Little Women, a multi-volume look at life inside her own house in Concord, Massachusetts, with the protagonists modeled after Alcott and her sisters. The series was both breezy but serious, offering a glimpse at the more than a few aspects of life for 19th century women coming of age. One contemporary reviewer called Little Women “the very best of books to reach the hearts of the young of any age from six to sixty.”

Alcott also used her experiences serving as a nurse for six weeks all through the Civil War at a Union Hospital in Georgetown, after which she compiled her letters to create Hospital Sketches. In that work, Alcott managed to use her unique style of humor to address the serious problems she encountered working as a nurse all through the war.

American Legends: The Life of Louisa May Alcott examines the life and work of the well-regarded author. Together with pictures of important people, you’re going to learn about Louisa May Alcott like you never have before, in no time at all.

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