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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451620403321

Titolo

Alcott in her own time [[electronic resource] ] : a biographical chronicle of her life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates / / edited by Daniel Shealy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005

ISBN

1-58729-598-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Writers in their own time

Altri autori (Persone)

ShealyDaniel

Disciplina

813/.4

B

Soggetti

Authors, American - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Chronology; [Annie Sawyer Downs], [Reminiscences of a Childhood in Concord in the 1840's]; Augusta Bowers French, [Louisa May Alcott in 1860]; Anne Brown Adams, [Louisa May Alcott in the Early 1860's]; Elizabeth B. Greene, [A Visit to the Alcotts in 1864]; Moses Coit Tyler, [A Letter about Louisa May Alcott in London] (1866); Anna Alcott Pratt, "A Letter from Miss Alcott's Sister about 'Little Women' " (1871); Anonymous, [Louisa May Alcott Visits the Sorosis Club in 1875]; Lydia Maria Child, [A Letter about the Alcotts and Orchard House] (1876)

Bessie Holyoke, [A Visit with Anna Alcott Pratt] (1878)Anonymous, "Miss Alcott's Birthplace" (1891); Anonymous, "Mr. Alcott and His Daughters" (1882); Louisa May Alcott, "Recollections of My Childhood" (1888); Lurabel Harlow, From Louisa May Alcott: A Souvenir (1888); Mary Bartol, "The Author of 'Little Women' " (1888); Frances Bellows Sanborn, "The Alcotts" (1888); Ednah Dow Cheney, From Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (1889); Maria S. Porter, "Recollections of Louisa May Alcott" (1892); Anna Alcott Pratt, "A Foreword by Meg" (1893)

Frank Preston Stearns, From Sketches from Concord and Appledore (1895)Edward W. Emerson, "When Louisa Alcott Was a Girl" (1898); Alfred Whitman, [Reminiscences of "Laurie"] (1901 and 1902); Annie M. L. Clark, From The Alcotts in Harvard (1902); Rebecca Harding Davis,



From Bits of Gossip (1904); F. B. Sanborn, "A Concord Notebook: The Women of Concord-III. Louisa Alcott and Her Circle" (1906); Clara Gowing, From The Alcotts as I Knew Them (1909); F. B. Sanborn, "Reminiscences of Louisa May Alcott" (1912); John S. P. Alcott, "The 'Little Women' of Long Ago" (1913)

Lydia Hosmer Wood, "Beth Alcott's Playmate: A Glimpse of Concord Town in the Days of Little Women" (1913)Frederick L. H. Willis, From Alcott Memoirs (1915); LaSalle Corbell Pickett, From Across My Path: Memories of People I Have Known (1916); [Russell H. Conwell], [A Visit to Louisa May Alcott] (1917); Julian Hawthorne, [Memories of the Alcott Family] (1922 and 1932); Mary Hosmer Brown, From Memories of Concord (1926); Maude Appleton McDowell, "Louisa May Alcott: By the Original 'Goldilocks' " (1936); Marion Talbot, "Glimpses of the Real Louisa May Alcott" (1938)

Nina Ames Frey, "Miss Clara and Her Friend, Louisa" (1960) Index

Sommario/riassunto

By 1888, twenty years after the publication of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was one of the most popular and successful authors America had yet produced. In her pre-Little Women days, she concocted blood-and-thunder tales for low wages; post-Little Women, she specialized in domestic novels and short stories for children. Collected here for the first time are the reminiscences of people who knew her, the majority of which have not been published since their original appearance in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the printed recollections in this book appeared after Alcott