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At last, Louisa May Alcott has the biography that admirers of Little Women might have hoped for.  . Reisen's lifelong fascination with Little Women and the woman who wrote it has produced an absorbing narrative, in many ways the best ever, of Alcott's own life. ―The Wall Street Journal's Best 10 Books of the Year. A magnificent new biography. The utterly compelling force of Alcott's personality has never been better described. I found the book compulsively readable; I couldn't put it down.

Reisen’s lifelong fascination with Little Women and the woman who wrote . Now I've lined up a bunch of Alcott's more adult books to read on Google Books

Reisen’s lifelong fascination with Little Women and the woman who wrote it has produced an absorbing narrative, in many ways the best ever, of Alcott’s own life. The utterly compelling force of Alcott’s personality has never been better described. Louisa May Alcott was not the sentimentalist you might imagine from Little Women, and here's the place to find out. I'm now reading some of LMA's lesser known works - always the sign of a good literary biography if it makes you turn back to the author for more. Now I've lined up a bunch of Alcott's more adult books to read on Google Books. I found her treatment of the often confusing Bronson Alcott (at least to me) very good.

Louisa May Alcott portrays a writer as worthy of interest in her own right as her most famous character, Jo March, and addresses all aspects of Alcott's l. 5 4 5 Author: Harriet Reisen Narrator: Harriet Reisen. Louisa May Alcott portrays a writer as worthy of interest in her own right as her most famous character, Jo March, and addresses all aspects of Alcott's life: the effect of her father's self-indulgent utopian schemes; her family's chronic economic difficulties and frequent uprootings; her experience as a nurse in the Civil War; and the loss of her health.

Louisa May Alcott, beloved author of Little Women, had a life far more remarkable than any of her characters

Louisa May Alcott, beloved author of Little Women, had a life far more remarkable than any of her characters. Raised in the midst of the Transcendentalist movement, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Emerson were her neighbors. In a fresh, modern take on the remarkable Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Reisen’s vivid biography explores the author’s life in the context of her works, many of which are to some extent autobiographical. Although Alcott secretly wrote pulp fiction, harbored radical abolitionist views, and served as a. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (book).

Louisa May Alcott has commanded passionate fans since "Little Women" was published (in two parts) in 1868 and 1890. The facts of Alcott's life are reasonably well-known, but Harriet Reisen's 2009 biography Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (John MacRae Books) is a welcome addition to the canon. Reisen quotes extensively from letters and journals, particularly Louisa's but also reaching more widely. Louisa's parents, Abigail May and Bronson Alcott, had strong ties to the abolitionist movement and were key figures in American transcendentalism, along.