02693cam a2200397 i 4500 91563224 TxAuBib 19990716120000.0 870105s1987||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 86034351 9780517634899 alk. paper 0517634899 alk. paper (OCoLC)15109249 TxAuBib rda Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy [Print] / by Louisa May Alcott ; color illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith and drawings by Frank T. Merrill. Leather bound : Illustrated. New York : Children's Classics, 1987. viii, 388 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Little Women ; 1 Concord, Massachusetts (United States), Massachusetts (United States, 1862), London, England, New England (United States.) 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. 19990716. March family (Fictitious characters) Juvenile fiction. Family New England Juvenile fiction. Sisters New England Juvenile fiction. New England Juvenile fiction. Domestic fiction. Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, ill. Merrill, Frank T, b. 1848, ill., (Frank Thayer.) Little Women ; 1. TXTLL