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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A richly imagined, remarkably written story of the woman who created Little Women—and how love changed her in ways she never expected.
Countless readers have fallen in love with Little Women. But how could the author—who never had a romance—write so convincingly of love and heartbreak without experiencing it herself?
Deftly mixing fact and fiction, Kelly O’Connor McNees returns to the summer of 1855, when...
Countless readers have fallen in love with Little Women. But how could the author—who never had a romance—write so convincingly of love and heartbreak without experiencing it herself?
Deftly mixing fact and fiction, Kelly O’Connor McNees returns to the summer of 1855, when...
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiv, 182 pages : 1 illustration ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel-- what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes...
Author
Series
Graphic classics volume 18
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
144 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
May Alcott spends her days sewing blue shirts for Union soldiers, but she dreams of painting a masterpiece -- which many say is impossible for a woman -- and of finding love, too. When she reads her sister's wildly popular novel, Little Women, she is stung by Louisa's portrayal of her as "Amy," the youngest of four sisters who trades her desire to succeed as an artist for the joys of hearth and home. Determined to prove her talent, May makes plans...
10) Little women
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
481 pages (large print), 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Susan Cheever's comprehensive and definitive biography sheds new light on of life of Louisa May Alcott, whose work has inspired generations of women. Cheever laces this provocative biography with musings on the genesis of genius, and her identification with Jo March when she was a rebellious girl in the throes of puberty.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 x 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Be drawn back to a time before apps and television, when playtime was full of possibilities. In Little Women: A BabyLit® Playtime Primer, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy show your little one all kinds of ways to have fun, including singing, gardening, sewing, skating, and of course, reading!"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Louisa came from a family that was poor but freethinking, and she started teaching when she was only seventeen years old. But writing was her passion. This biography captures the life of a compassionate woman who left an indelible mark on literature for all ages.
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 9
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the Union Army's defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to attend to the sick, wounded, and dying. Both of these iconic Americans, known for bucking the conventions of their day, find their principles and beliefs tested by grueling and grisly duties. Walt Whitman was a man of many contradictions: egocentric yet compassionate, vain though frequently transported by the beauty of others, he...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
v, 243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Louisa on the Frontlines is the first narrative nonfiction book focusing on the least-known aspect of Louisa May Alcott's career-- her time spent as a nurse during the Civil War. Though her service was brief, the dramatic experience was one that she considered pivotal in helping her write the beloved classic Little Women. It also deeply affected her tenuous relationship with her father, and inspired her commitment to abolitionism. Through it all,...
17) Little Women
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of...
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Concord, Massachusetts, seven-year-old Louisa May Alcott joins other local children on the varied excursions led by teacher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, and is inspired to write her first poem.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
ix, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author argues that Louisa's "Marmee," Abigail May Alcott, was in fact the intellectual and emotional center of her daughter's world--exploding the myth that her outspoken idealist father was the source of her progressive thinking and remarkable independence.
20) The other Alcott
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
408, 17 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the life of Louisa May Alcott's youngest sister finds young May longing to study art outside of the confines of her Concord home before turning down a marriage proposal and pursuing an identity in contrast to the spoiled and worldly character of Amy in her sister's famed novel.
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