Family & home stories (Children's/YA)
Little Women
by Louise May Alcott
Description
Little Women "has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth", but also "as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well".[6]:34 According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from Romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new format. Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the "All-American girl" and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.
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Rights Information
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Author Biography
Alcott's family suffered financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Example Books
- Publication Date February 1905
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780123456773
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 14.99 GBP
- Pages573
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year1900
- Dimensions17.5x26 cm
