Louisa May Alcott
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Standard Name: Alcott, Louisa May
Birth Name: Louisa May Alcott
Pseudonym: Flora Fairfield
Pseudonym: A. M. Barnard
Used Form: Louisa Alcott
United States novelist LMA
published during the later nineteenth century more than three hundred writings, including works for children, short stories, letters, poetry, novels, plays, sensation fiction, and journalism. Little Women, her best-known work, remains a classic among fiction for young adults.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Kate Parry Frye | KPF
's father, Frederick Charlwood Frye
, attended Saffron Walden Grammar School
and worked as a clerk and grocer. During the late nineteenth century his grocery business did very well, expanding into a chain, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | Literary memoirs and old second-hand illustrated editions testify to ME
's enormously wide juvenile audience during the Victorian period. She influenced the work of later children's writers as various as Louisa May Alcott
, Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Education | Elizabeth De la Pasture | Though almost nothing is known of EDP
's education, she wrote later that her early favourite reading was American. The heroines of Louisa May Alcott
's Little Women were her oldest and dearest friends. She... |
Friends, Associates | Rebecca Harding Davis | She established a friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne
through an early, enthusiastic letter, in which she described the delight of her first encounters with his work. She nevertheless felt that he always stood somewhat aloof from... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca Harding Davis | When it first appeared, RHD
's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community. Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press. 10 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago. 117 |
Textual Features | Rebecca Harding Davis | She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The book's application of the rhetoric of duty and its emphasis on the special characteristics of women made it enormously effective as an address to women who were not already committed feminists. Frances E. Willard |
Education | Kate Clanchy | As a child KC
loved Victorian stories for girls—Frances Hodgson Burnett
's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
(or Susan Coolidge)'s What Katy Did, and Louisa May Alcott |
Education | Agatha Christie | By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller
believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll |
Friends, Associates | Frances Hodgson Burnett | In Washington FHB
quickly made new friends, particularly the journalist Julia Schayer
(who soon after they met wrote of her as the Coming Woman). Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus. 68 |
Education | Muriel Box | MB
early learned to read for herself (with some help from Reading Without Tears, a mid-Victorian textbook by Favell Lee Bevan, later Mrs Mortimer
) because her parents were often too busy to satisfy... |
Textual Production | Enid Blyton | |
Education | Enid Blyton | Enid later recalled in vivid detail the first school she went to, Tresco, which was run by the Misses Read in their private house. She recalled, too, the most important texts among her early reading:... |
Education | Malorie Blackman | MB
was shaped by her reading outside school. She never entered a bookshop until she was fourteen, but relied on libraries. Early favourites were C. S. Lewis
's Narnia books, Johanna Spyri
's Heidi books... |
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