Louisa May Alcott: A Brief Biographical Sketch (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Originally published in 1884 as a portion of the book “Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of Their Live and Deeds,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 24 pages, describes the life and work of the author of “Little Women,” Louisa May Alcott.Sample passage:It was in 1868 that Mr. Alcott took to Roberts Brothers—those publishers whose name has been so intimately associated with all the most successful and brilliant years of Miss Alcott’s life—a volume composed of various stories with which the readers of newspapers were already familiar. Mr. Niles, one of the firm, read them, and recognized their merit, but he said: “We do not care just now for volumes of collected stories. Will not your daughter write us a new book consisting of a single story for girls?”The result of this suggestion was “Little Women.” Miss Alcott says she wrote it to prove that she could not write a girls’ story, having always preferred to play with boys, and therefore knowing very little about any girls except her sisters and herself. This matchless tale was sent to the publishers in about two months after it had been first asked for, with the amusing suggestion that if the title—that happiest title which juvenile book ever had—was not liked the author would willingly change it for something else.The first part of “Little Women” was published in October 1868; but it attracted comparatively little attention until the publication of the second part, in April 1869, when suddenly Miss Alcott became famous. I do not, of course, mean that the first part of the book was not widely read and cordially welcomed; but only that the actual furor began with the publication of the second part.About the author:Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908) was an American critic, poet, and short story writer. Other works include “Bed-time Stories,” “Against Wind and Tide,” and “Miss Eyre from Boston and Other Stories.”