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Sep 28, 2018 · These are the critics who cite Alcott’s own characterization of her novel as a “dull” book that she wrote only for the money her family desperately needed, and lament that Little Women was ...
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Despite the series’ emphasis the inner virtue on Alcott’s...
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Little Women contains nods to the sensation stories Alcott loved to write. Alcott was a prolific writer. She wrote over 200 books and her works, many written under pseudonyms, are still being ...
Apr 26, 2018 · Little Men was published in 1871 and Jo's Boys in 1886. Both novels featured the March sisters. The First Chapters of Little Women Were Thought Dull. Both Louisa May and her publisher thought the first chapters were dull, but her publisher's niece thought they were splendid, as did other girls who read early copies, so they published the novel ...
I agree. Little Women is one of those books I think I read when I was a little too old (late teens) for it. I have never seen the appeal. You might be interested to know that the author, Louisa May Alcott, hated the novel herself. She called it "dull" and an exercise in "providing moral pap for the young," and I dare say she is right on both ...
Little Men. Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. [1][2] The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her ...
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Dec 10, 2019 · Let's Treat It Like One. On the occasion of its eighth film adaptation, it's time for the 1868 novel to join the literary canon. One hundred fifty-one years ago, when Louisa May Alcott’s Little ...
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May 20, 2024 · She was uninterested, until she was pretty much forced into it by her father. A seldom-published author of philosophy texts, he made a deal with Roberts Brothers — they’d print his book if he got Alcott to write the young adult book. Once Alcott consented to the deal, she wrote Little Women (the first of two books) in ten weeks. Just four ...
