A Garland For Girls, Louisa May Alcott
A Garland For Girls, Louisa May Alcott
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A Garland For Girls

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Narrator: C. M. Hbert

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

Louisa May Alcotts lively and heartwarming stories are favorites with young readers everywhere. A Garland for Girls will be especially welcomed for those who read and treasure all of the books by this great American author.

About Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters—Anna, Elizabeth, and May—were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher Bronson Alcott, and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May.

Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson's library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at Hillside. Like her character Jo March from Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy.

For Louisa, writing was an early passion. She had a rich imagination, and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends. At age fifteen, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed to make something of herself. Confronting a society that offered little opportunity to women seeking employment, Louisa remained determined; whether as a teacher, seamstress, governess, or household servant, for many years Louisa did any work she could find.

Louisa's career as an author began with poetry and short stories that appeared in popular magazines. In 1854, when she was twenty-two, her first book, Flower Fables, was published. Another milestone along her literary path was Hospital Sketches, which was based on the letters she had written home from her post as a nurse in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War.

When Louisa was thirty-five, her publisher asked her to write a book for girls. Thus, she wrote Little Women, which is based on Louisa and her sisters' coming of age and is set in Civil War New England. Jo March was the first American juvenile heroine to act from her own individuality; a living, breathing person rather than the idealized stereotype that was then prevalent in children's fiction.

In all, Louisa published over thirty books and collections of stories. She died on March 6, 1888, only two days after her father.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Majenta

"Written for my own amusement," says Alcott herself? Well, the original readers she won over with LITTLE WOMEN and LITTLE MEN probably scooped up this whole bouquet of charming stories, which probably left a favorable fragrance and a curiosity as to what Ms. Alcott's next offering would be. Today's......more

Il titolo di questa deliziosa raccolta di racconti nasce dal fatto che ogni piccola storia è denominata con un fiore particolare che simboleggia le virtù e il modo di affrontare la vita di ogni sua protagonista. Le ragazze descritte dalla Alcott sono tutte diverse per carattere ed estrazione sociale......more

Goodreads review by aisha

A little gem of a book. A collection of various stories, each titled with the name of a flower or flowers. They are obviously instructional stories aimed at teaching morals and good graces to young girls. Although the stories are a bit saccharine at times, I couldn't help but admire the way they tea......more

Goodreads review by Rebekah

3.5 stars It’s been a long, long time since I’ve read these stories. I enjoyed them all, some more than others. The characters were unique and different. Some more likable than others, but none were horrible and utterly unlikable. I love Louisa May Alcott’s style of writing. Each story has some little......more