Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. Novel Little Women for which she is best known was published in 1868. It is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a semiautobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. A sequel, Good Wives, (1869) followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) detailed the characters and ways of her nephews who lived...
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. Novel Little Women for which she is best known was published in 1868. It is loosely based on her childhood...
As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone else what they intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say thatthere is no moral to this story. Rose is not designed for a modelgirl, and the Sequel was simply written in fulfillment of a promise,hoping to afford some amusement, and perhaps here and there ahelpful hint, to other roses getting ready to bloom. L. M. Alcott, September 1876
As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone else what they intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say thatthere is no moral to t...
