Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (1907)

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Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (1907)

S$98.00

Title: Little Women
Author: Louisa May Alcott, G. Demain Hammond (illus)
Publisher: Blackie and Son. No publishing date, prize plate dated 1907.
Condition: Leather bound, school prize binding. Beautiful binding, with 5 raised bands, and marbled edges a

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Title: Little Women
Author: Louisa May Alcott, G. Demain Hammond (illus)
Publisher: Blackie and Son. No publishing date, prize plate dated 1907.
Condition: Leather bound, school prize binding. Beautiful binding, with 5 raised bands, and marbled edges and end papers. Minor foxing to pages. 4 black and white illustrations. Original book was probably a mass market edition that was later rebound. School prize plate on end paper.

About the book (from Wikipedia):

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters.

Little Women “has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth”, but also “as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well”.

About Louisa May Alcott (from Wikipedia):

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard. With her pen name Louisa wrote novels for young adults in juvenile hall.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott’s childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children’s novel today. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist. She died in Boston.