Alcott also wanted to keep her identity hidden.
Walter Alcott's daughter.
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet.
Alcott was dubious about her ability to write such a book.
Little Women was Louisa May Alcott's first bestseller and her most popular book.
Louisa Mary Alcott once said,“I am not afraid
of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Jon Cohen, Todd Alcott, and Joss Whedon, among others, were also attached to the project at various points.
Little Women,
based on the lives of the four March sisters is clearly an idealized version of Alcott's own family.
Jo became a heroine for many young girls, and Alcott, who never married, made sure she was an independent trailblazer.
But between the pressure from her publisher and her father, Bronson Alcott, she agreed to write the girls' book first.
But it was her report of her Civil
War encounters, Hospital Sketches(1863), that affirmed Alcott's want to be a significant writer.
But it was her account of her Civil
War experiences, Hospital Sketches(1863), that confirmed Alcott's desire to be a serious writer.
Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson(who would compose and read his
eulogy in 1888) were strong supporters of Bergh and his cause.
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.
Alcott's stories began to appear in The Atlantic Monthly,
and, because family needs were pressing, she wrote the autobiographical Little Women(1868-69), which was an immediate success.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and
while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing.
But the cover had a portrait of Walt Whitman,“broad-shouldered, rouge-fleshed, Bacchus-browed,
bearded like a satyr,” as Bronson Alcott described him in a journal entry in 1856.
The project floundered in development hell for many years; Jon Cohen,
Todd Alcott, and Joss Whedon, among others, were also attached to the project at various points.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home,
Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
Both she and Niles found them boring,
but Nile's niece and other young girls who read them loved it, and Alcott wrote,“They are the best critics,
so I should definitely be satisfied.”.
If Roosevelt or Alcott were alive today,
what observations and advice would they have for coping with the epidemic of sedentarism and excessive screen time we face in the information age?