Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth and May were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher, Bronson Alcott and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May.
Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau and theatricals in the barn at Hillside (now Hawthorne’s "Wayside").
Like her character, Jo March in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, " and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences...."
For Louisa, writing was an early passion. She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends. Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens."
At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!"
Confronting a society that offered little opportunity to women seeking employment, Louisa determined "...I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world." Whether as a teacher, seamstress, governess, or household servant, for many years Louisa did any work she could find.
Louisa’s career as an author began with poetry and short stories that appeared in popular magazines. In 1854, when she was 22, her first book Flower Fables was published. A milestone along her literary path was Hospital Sketches (1863) based on the letters she had written home from her post as a nurse in Washington, DC as a nurse during the Civil War.
When Louisa was 35 years old, her publisher Thomas Niles in Boston asked her to write "a book for girls." Little Women was written at Orchard House from May to July 1868. The novel is based on Louisa and her sisters’ coming of age and is set in Civil War New England. Jo March was the first American juvenile heroine to act from her own individuality; a living, breathing person rather than the idealized stereotype then prevalent in children’s fiction.
In all, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories. She died on March 6, 1888, only two days after her father, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.
It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with �woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the �girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.
小妇人这本书,是对我人生影响重大的一本书。直到现在我都会向小姑娘推荐这本书,可以说是少女必读经典。我在小学时开始看这本书。在后来的漫漫时光中,我无数次反复阅读,失望沮丧失眠的深夜,重温这本书,我就觉得生活美好无比,一切皆有可能。 直到现在,书中那...
评分在一个冬日明媚的午后,重读了一遍《小妇人》,从阅览室出来的时候带着一身的惆怅,撕心裂肺的疼痛猝不及防地袭击我心深处。 文字是个很默契的东西,可以拥有穿越时空的力量,把那个时代发生的那些事情活化在这个时代的这个时刻。感受着乔的感受,经历着乔的经历,如此洒脱的她...
评分对作者的安排非常不满意! 我并不认同马奇太太以及其他读者说的乔和劳里在一起会因为太过相像而无法长久。书里面早就描写过不止一次两人争吵但又各退一步和好,作为朋友可以这样,作为伴侣我相信也可以。况且,(这可能算作作者的时代局限性?)所谓从来没有红过脸的夫妻,真的...
评分Old-fashioned writing style with life trifles. Compulsory preach tune. Teddy and Jo, how lovely. Author let Jo chose Mr. B just to prove she is high-hearted. God, I hate this book.
评分开始读的书虫4的改写,读了一半很喜欢买了原版读,读完了更喜欢。轻微鸡汤,但读着很舒服,想起Joey当时读这本书被吓的要放进冰箱里。Beth得scarlet fever的几章,真心吓一跳,难怪Rachel看得一惊一乍的。这本书很适合当妈妈的人读一读,也适合女孩儿们看一看,真挺好看的。跟《傲慢与偏见》那一家姑娘们比起来,像个童话故事。
评分a little bit boring at the beginning
评分Festive,jolly and touching.Together.
评分建议读完Part I既可,Part II 成了言情片片。
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