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Little Women - Lined Journal & Novel
288 pages, Hardcover
Published August 6, 2024
About the author
Louisa May Alcott
4,178 books10.9k followersLouisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.
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March 29, 2026
This book felt like a warm cuddle whenever I settled down to read it. I felt so in love with this Chiltern copy also, such a pretty book!
I’d like to read ‘Good Wives’ next, also by Louisa May Alcott.
I’d like to read ‘Good Wives’ next, also by Louisa May Alcott.
April 6, 2026
Super wholesome, but it's the first book and I'm missing the drama of the movie.
The book is comforting, but the tension between Laurie and Jo is killing me. And what made me uncomfortable was that they are actually little women, like little girls. They are surper young, and they made it seem like Mr. Brooke was old.
But it was definitely therapy after A Little Life.
The book is comforting, but the tension between Laurie and Jo is killing me. And what made me uncomfortable was that they are actually little women, like little girls. They are surper young, and they made it seem like Mr. Brooke was old.
But it was definitely therapy after A Little Life.
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