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 descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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... |
Occupation | Margaret Fuller | Following her father's sudden death in 1835, MF
abandoned her plans for travel, and turned to teaching as a means of supplementing the family's income (she had initially attempted to make money through writing, but... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God. Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton. 13 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | Writing of Bunyan's near-universal appeal, MR cites the many remarkable men Furlong, Monica. Puritan’s Progress, A Study of John Bunyan. Hodder and Stoughton. 13 |
Education | H. D. | HD's father encouraged her education, although he refused to allow her to attend art school. Instead, she was encouraged to study mathematics and was tutored by her brother Eric
. Eric also provided his sister... |
Education | Patricia Highsmith | PH
went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she... |
Publishing | Susan Hill | SH
has successfully self-published, and makes extensive use of new media. She is active as both a blogger and a tweeter. In 2013 both Printer's Devil Court, her latest ghost story, and Crystal... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | They became close to a young friend met in Rome, Margaret Foley
, a sculptor from New England, who took up summer residence in the same spot. Visitors to their house in Rome included... |
Occupation | Amy Levy | AL
was an accomplished draughtswoman. She drew vivid sketches and scenes. Her topics at an early age included a feminist on a soapbox, and characters from Louisa May Alcott
's Little Women and Germaine de Staël |
Intertextuality and Influence | Shena Mackay | The book blends the ordinary and extraordinary. The two girls devour books: Anna Sewell
's Black Beauty, The Valley of Doom, Louisa May Alcott
's Little Women, Lucy Maud Montgomery
's Anne... |
Textual Features | Shena Mackay | The stories here deal with all kinds of complexity and nuance in the sisterly relationship. The collection ends, as the introduction begins, with Christina Rossetti
's Goblin Market. The nineteenth century is further represented... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | In the USA HM
became a good friend of Margaret Fuller
, although differences developed between them after Martineau published Society in America, which she saw as objecting to Fuller's gorgeous pedantry and disregard... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Mead | Her engagement at seventeen was probably, like her becoming a Christian, an act of rebellion against her parents, who were both nearly thirty when they married, and who wanted her to wait—especially against her mother... |
Education | Dervla Murphy | DM
was a passionate reader as a child, devouring children's adventure books (especially series like W. E. Johns
's Biggles and Arthur Ransome
's Swallows and Amazons), rejecting classical stories like those of Louisa Alcott |
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