The Louisa Alcott Reader: A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The stories Alcott wrote for the youngest readers: a Christmas dream that comes true, a candy country, a pair of skipping shoes, two children who run away to the farm, and a piggy girl who will not be washed. They were collected as a school reader after her death, from magazines and from "Lulu's Library", and are the gentlest thing under her name. The moralising is plain and the invention is better than the moralising deserves. Forty-three plates of nineteenth-century American painting, from Mary Cassatt's mothers and children to Eastman Johnson's country scenes, picture the same gentle domestic world the stories inhabit.
The stories Alcott wrote for the youngest readers: a Christmas dream that comes true, a candy country, a pair of skipping shoes, two children who run away to the farm, and a piggy girl who will not be washed. They were collected as a school reader after her death, from magazines and from "Lulu's ...
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Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) supported her family from girlhood — sewing, teaching, service as a Civil War nurse until typhoid nearly killed her — and wrote anonymous thrillers for the story papers before Little Women made her the household name she had not wanted. She never married, kept her sister's daughter, and died two days after her father.
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) supported her family from girlhood — sewing, teaching, service as a Civil War nurse until typhoid nearly killed her — and wrote anonymous thrillers for the story papers before Little Women made her the household name she had not wanted. She never married, kept her si...
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