A companion volume to "The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott", the journals are here published in their original, unabridged version for the first time. Entries which have previously been censored or altered are reinstated and corrected, providing a wealth of new material. Alcott began her journal at a very young age and continued to write it nearly to the time of her death. It reveals her most personal, emotional reactions to her family, her work and the world in which she lived.
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An intimate view of a 19th Century author's life
6 Jun 2004
By R. Tiedemann
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When Louisa May Alcott's biography was published shortly after her death in 1888, a reviewer lamented, "We wish heartily that Miss Alcott had chosen to tell her own story." She does in these journals.
Through her father's influence as well as the emerging recogniton of her own devleoping talent, Alcott met many of the masters of American literature in her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne -- all of whom are mentioned often in her journals among her everyday struggles to support her family with her writing. She learned her craft by writing thrillers for tabloids while working as a domestic in wealthy households.
Louisa Alcott never intended for these pages to be read so reading them is an extremely personal experience. The reader gains an intimate insight into the life and mind of one of America's premiere 19th century women writers. Louisa was a poor speller, we learn, and we also learn how she felt about abolition, the Civil War, educational reform, women's rights and many other issues including arguments she had with her editors.
Reading JOURNALS was an intense experience that transported me into her time and her life. If you grew up reading LITTLE WOMEN and LITTLE MEN you'll thoroughly enjoy this look at a remarkable author's life.
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Insight into Louisa May Alcott
23 Sep 2008
By Virginia Allain
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What a treat it is to read about the life of this great children's author from her own pen. This covers 45 years of Louisa May Alcott's life from her childhood to her death. One see parallels between Little Women and Alcott's real life family and situations. Notes by the editors at the end of each year fill in some of the gaps. Louisa often used initials so the notes flesh out the details.
What an interesting life she lived with the Civil War, women's suffrage and her family's noted literary and philosophical links. It's a little disappointing that her final years are covered so sketchily in the journals, but her health problems and family duties interfered.
It's well-worth reading the introduction by Madeleine Stern which gives a comprehensive mini-biography to accompany the journals.
What an interesting life she lived with the Civil War, women's suffrage and her family's noted literary and philosophical links. It's a little disappointing that her final years are covered so sketchily in the journals, but her health problems and family duties interfered.
It's well-worth reading the introduction by Madeleine Stern which gives a comprehensive mini-biography to accompany the journals.
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Almost Every Page Held Some New Amazement
18 April 2008
By Ellie Reasoner
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The eloquent Miss Alcott, creator of Little Women, of course, was not only an interesting diarist, she was one capable of leaving open a portal into her era, her mind, her remarkable human spirit. Her unrehearsed honesty year after year reflects the values of her age moreso than nearly anything else I've read, and the beauty of her entries and thoughts reinforces the fact that our language today is but a pale shadow of the elegant means of expression that existed in America of the nineteenth-century. Alcott scholars should find much to pore through here, but even someone such as myself, who read this out of a sense of historical curiosity, will be delighted. In terms of perfection this is a diary that ranks up there with that of Mary Chesnut, John Evelyn, Samuel Pepys, and very few others.
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