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Author
Series
Graphic classics volume 18
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
144 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Concord, Massachusetts, seven-year-old Louisa May Alcott joins other local children on the varied excursions led by teacher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, and is inspired to write her first poem.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
v, 243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Louisa on the Frontlines is the first narrative nonfiction book focusing on the least-known aspect of Louisa May Alcott's career-- her time spent as a nurse during the Civil War. Though her service was brief, the dramatic experience was one that she considered pivotal in helping her write the beloved classic Little Women. It also deeply affected her tenuous relationship with her father, and inspired her commitment to abolitionism. Through it all,...
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 9
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the Union Army's defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to attend to the sick, wounded, and dying. Both of these iconic Americans, known for bucking the conventions of their day, find their principles and beliefs tested by grueling and grisly duties. Walt Whitman was a man of many contradictions: egocentric yet compassionate, vain though frequently transported by the beauty of others, he...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 419 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Two women, one living in present day Massachusetts and another in Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House soon after the Civil War, overcome their own personal demons and search for a place to belong... 2001. Abandoned by her own family, Taylor is determined not to mess up her chance at joining the home of her best friend, Victoria Bennett. But despite attending summer camp at Louisa May Alcott's historic Orchard House with Victoria and sharing dreams...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
ix, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author argues that Louisa's "Marmee," Abigail May Alcott, was in fact the intellectual and emotional center of her daughter's world--exploding the myth that her outspoken idealist father was the source of her progressive thinking and remarkable independence.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from the girlhood diary of Louisa May Alcott, describing her family life, lessons, and experiences on a communal farm in the 1840s. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller. Guided by duty, driven by desire, they moved toward lofty destinies: a young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, a gay Brooklyn...
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