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...
評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...
評分《小妇人》是我真正意义上读的第一本书。8岁的小女孩,坐在宽大的窗台上,手里捧着一本大部头。 那时候,书里的一些字我还不认得,但丝毫不影响我被这本书深深地吸引。 对于成长初期的我,这一本充满爱与希望的教育的温馨小书,带给我的不仅仅是感动,很多次,四姐妹的故事都成...
評分 評分《小妇人》是我真正意义上读的第一本书。8岁的小女孩,坐在宽大的窗台上,手里捧着一本大部头。 那时候,书里的一些字我还不认得,但丝毫不影响我被这本书深深地吸引。 对于成长初期的我,这一本充满爱与希望的教育的温馨小书,带给我的不仅仅是感动,很多次,四姐妹的故事都成...
Festive,jolly and touching.Together.
评分It's stirred up some really private feelings, my Teddy boy, my Beth, good to know people CAN and should recover. If only Jo could resist that harmless loneliness and seek not moral guidance! Little women are too good to be modern. Amy's awful, Meg worse, still you can try to learn a trick or two from them, if you want to be a familywoman! virtue!????
评分歸類為童話都不過分...
评分我是個俗人,沒看齣什麼基督教清教的東西齣來。 對Jo沒有跟Laurie在一起,而Laurie居然最後跟Amy在一起,最過分的是最後Jo居然淪為一個傢庭婦女的結局錶示非常非常失望。
评分2010.5.14 讀完 小女英雄救瞭小男孩。小男孩對小女英雄愛得死去活來。可惜全世界所有的女人都不會甘心與一個需要自己去保護的男人結婚——哪怕她是一個不許要任何人守護的女英雄。也許隻是早幾年與晚幾年的差彆。假以時日,他會長大,也會懂得藏住自己的懦弱,甚至知道如何去做其他人的英雄。然而他的一生總是以一個任性的姿態被定格在小女英雄的心中,無法長大。這一切,究竟是我們的不寬容,還是命運的安排? 幸福,大概遲早都會來的。至於那個人是誰,都是不重要的。 p.s. The writing is old-fashioned - not bad but just too overdone. Therefore, I am glad that the beautifully charming boy appeared early in the book - otherwise I really cannot stand some passages.
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