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 (now Hawthorne’s "Wayside").
Like her character, Jo March in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, " and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences...."
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. Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens."
At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!"
Confronting a society that offered little opportunity to women seeking employment, Louisa determined "...I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world." 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 22, her first book Flower Fables was published. A milestone along her literary path was Hospital Sketches (1863) based on the letters she had written home from her post as a nurse in Washington, DC as a nurse during the Civil War.
When Louisa was 35 years old, her publisher Thomas Niles in Boston asked her to write "a book for girls." Little Women was written at Orchard House from May to July 1868. The novel 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 then prevalent in children’s fiction.
In all, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories. She died on March 6, 1888, only two days after her father, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.
It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with �woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the �girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.
当年初中的时候看完《小妇人》,觉得如梗在喉,和好朋友讨论了半天也没能解决萦绕心头的很多问题。如今时隔多年,看到小柯的文章,忽然百感交集,怔怔地对着电脑发了半天呆,感到人生微妙的失意。 书中的时代也可以适用于现在的中国吧,敢情人性大抵是相似的。当年鸭子说她真是...
評分我要用自己的头脑做武器,在这艰难的世间开创出一条路来。 ----路易莎奥尔科特 看了此间一著名影评人的文章,我想很能代表中国女性对本书的观点。 她们认为,作为新女性的乔,不应该嫁给一个又老又穷的德国学究,要么嫁给英俊富有的初恋情人,要么索性独身,而且将乔的选择作...
評分 評分对作者的安排非常不满意! 我并不认同马奇太太以及其他读者说的乔和劳里在一起会因为太过相像而无法长久。书里面早就描写过不止一次两人争吵但又各退一步和好,作为朋友可以这样,作为伴侣我相信也可以。况且,(这可能算作作者的时代局限性?)所谓从来没有红过脸的夫妻,真的...
評分非常喜欢,以前看过动画片,电影, 最后看的书.里面最喜欢乔,值得哭的情节有很多,最令我感动的是乔为了筹资,而把一头长发剪掉,最感到难过的是乔没有和劳里在一起.
Finally done! A warm, lovely, touching and enlightened story. About family, poverty, growth and love, you can easily find youreself in the four splendid and warm-hearted daughters. Who are you then? Or which characteristic do you think you are bestowed like the four's? Just find youreself in this amazing story!
评分歸類為童話都不過分...
评分我看的是圖書館的紅白藍係列那一本,好厚。上課期間一個星期左右看完的。很感動。女生在艱難時期的成長,自我的意識格外重要。
评分開始讀的書蟲4的改寫,讀瞭一半很喜歡買瞭原版讀,讀完瞭更喜歡。輕微雞湯,但讀著很舒服,想起Joey當時讀這本書被嚇的要放進冰箱裏。Beth得scarlet fever的幾章,真心嚇一跳,難怪Rachel看得一驚一乍的。這本書很適閤當媽媽的人讀一讀,也適閤女孩兒們看一看,真挺好看的。跟《傲慢與偏見》那一傢姑娘們比起來,像個童話故事。
评分2010.5.14 讀完 小女英雄救瞭小男孩。小男孩對小女英雄愛得死去活來。可惜全世界所有的女人都不會甘心與一個需要自己去保護的男人結婚——哪怕她是一個不許要任何人守護的女英雄。也許隻是早幾年與晚幾年的差彆。假以時日,他會長大,也會懂得藏住自己的懦弱,甚至知道如何去做其他人的英雄。然而他的一生總是以一個任性的姿態被定格在小女英雄的心中,無法長大。這一切,究竟是我們的不寬容,還是命運的安排? 幸福,大概遲早都會來的。至於那個人是誰,都是不重要的。 p.s. The writing is old-fashioned - not bad but just too overdone. Therefore, I am glad that the beautifully charming boy appeared early in the book - otherwise I really cannot stand some passages.
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