Shows and describes the Alcott homes, including Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and depicts the lives of Alcott and her family.
Louisa made a list of her favorite books , including Carlyle's The French Revolution , Plutarch's Lives , and Milton's Paradise Lost . As usual , she tried to live up to her parents ' lofty ideals . She excluded from her list all the ...
A biography of Louisa May Alcott that traces the influence of her family life on her works.
B. Alcott, “Researches on Childhood,” as quoted in Charles Strickland's essay: “A Transcendentalist Father,” in Perspectives in American History, Vol. III, 1969, p. 49. ... Ednah D. Cheney, p. 27. Strickland, “A Transcendentalist Father ...
A biography of Louisa May Alcott traces the influence of her family life on her writings
L. M. Alcott, n.d. 1854, Journals, 72; L. M. Alcott, 1 January 1855, Journals, 73. Louisa's journals report the earnings of Flower Fables in one place as thirty-two dollars, and thirty-five in another. 66. L. M. Alcott to Abigail May ...
Now, at the end of the twentieth century, Alcott's vast body of work is being celebrated alongside the greatest American writers, and this collection shows why.
Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1899. hartman, Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth-centuryAmerica. oxford: oxford Univ. Press, 1997. hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. 1850.
An account of the life of Louisa May Alcott explores her life in the context of her works, all of which are to some extent autobiographical.
His enemy, Robert E. Lee, had his troops divided, with a week's march away from Fredericksburg, Virginia, a place that was best known as George Washington's hometown. Burnside's strategy was to march his troops nearly one hundred miles ...
This nonfiction text breathes life into the pages of history, and gives students a sense of what life was like in Louisa May Alcott's time.