Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)
Auteur van Onder moeders vleugels
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Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Two years later, she moved with her family to Boston and in 1840 to Concord, which was to remain her family home for the rest of her life. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a transcendentalist and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry toon meer David Thoreau. Alcott early realized that her father could not be counted on as sole support of his family, and so she sacrificed much of her own pleasure to earn money by sewing, teaching, and churning out potboilers. Her reputation was established with Hospital Sketches (1863), which was an account of her work as a volunteer nurse in Washington, D.C. Alcott's first works were written for children, including her best-known Little Women (1868--69) and Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871). Moods (1864), a "passionate conflict," was written for adults. Alcott's writing eventually became the family's main source of income. Throughout her life, Alcott continued to produce highly popular and idealistic literature for children. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), Under the Lilacs (1878), and Jack and Jill (1881) enjoyed wide popularity. At the same time, her adult fiction, such as the autobiographical novel Work: A Story of Experience (1873) and A Modern Mephistopheles (1877), a story based on the Faust legend, shows her deeper concern with such social issues as education, prison reform, and women's suffrage. She realistically depicts the problems of adolescents and working women, the difficulties of relationships between men and women, and the values of the single woman's life. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Little Women, (150th Anniversary Edition) Original Illustrations: (Little Women and Good Wives) (2020) 6 exemplaren
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Louisa May Alcott: Complete Collection Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2014) 4 exemplaren
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Black Beauty (Whitman Classics Library) 2 exemplaren
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Civil War Memoirs of Louisa May Alcott (Unabridged): Including Letters, Hospital Sketches & Biography of the Author -… (2015) 2 exemplaren
Hombrecitos para niños (Clasicos Para Ninos Classics for Children) (Spanish Edition) (2019) 2 exemplaren
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[Classic Starts®: Little Women (Classic Starts® Series)] [By: Alcott, Louisa May] [March, 2005] 1 exemplaar
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Little Women [dramatization] 1 exemplaar
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Little Women ... Illustrated ... by S. Van Abbe 1 exemplaar
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Will's Wonder Book 1 exemplaar
Water Cresses 1 exemplaar
Meadow Blossoms 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Barnard, A. M.
- Geboortedatum
- 1832-11-29
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1888-03-06
- Graflocatie
- Authors' Ridge, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
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- Geboorteplaats
- Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- stroke
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- Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Utopian Fruitlands Community, Harvard, Massachusetts, USA (1843-1844) - Opleiding
- homeschooled
- Beroepen
- novelist
nurse
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governess - Relaties
- Alcott, Amos Bronson (father)
Alcott, Abigail May (mother) - Organisaties
- Transcendentalism
- Agent
- Zachary Shuster Harmsworth (estate)
- Korte biografie
- Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. 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, under which she wrote novels for young adults that focused on spies and revenge.
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, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted many times to the stage, film, and television.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. All her life she was active in such reform movements as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke, two days after her father died, in Boston on March 6, 1888.
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Nadat ik de fantastische film Little Women (van de super getalenteerde Greta Gerwich) zag wou ik heel graag dit boek lezen, om nog even langer in dit warme March-bad te kunnen vertoeven. Ik ben blij dat ik eerst de film zag, zodat het boek nog meer verdieping in het verhaal kon brengen. En hoewel ik graag zelf een beeld schep bij de personages stonden de beelden uit de film me tijdens het lezen niet tegen (Saiorse en Timothée, wie kan daar iets op tegen hebben?).
Het boek is iets kneuteriger dan de film maar dat stoort niet echt. Het boek dateert per slot van rekening al van 1868 én werd geschreven door een vrouw, wat niet evident was voor de mannelijke (uitgevers-) wereld toen. Niet dat ik Louisa onderschat maar onderschat zeker haar uitgever niet. Louisa baseerde dit verhaal losjes op haar eigen leven maar werd (bijvoorbeeld) verplicht om een happy end aan het verhaal te breien door Jo te laten trouwen in het (tweede) boek…
De lotgevallen van de zusjes March en hun buurjongen Laurie inspireren al decennia lang meisjes, vrouwen, en ongetwijfeld ook een hoop jongens, over de hele wereld. Iedereen herkent zich wel in één van de zussen. (Ik in Jo, en jij?) Het verhaal blijft fris en aanstekelijk hartverwarmend. Doordat het veelal gaat over spanningen en botsingen tussen mensen, over de worsteling van het opgroeien en de kracht van (een eerste) liefde blijft het verhaal tijdloos. Jo en haar zussen zijn nog steeds een voorbeeld voor ons allen en dit boek afdoen als zo maar een ‘meidenboek’ is heiligschennend. Onder moeders vleugels is meer dan terecht een populaire klassieker!… (meer)