"I want something to do."  This remark being addressed to the world in general, no one in particular felt it their duty to reply; so I repeated it to the smaller world about me, received the following suggestions, and settled the matter by answering my own inquiry, as people are apt to do when very much in earnest.  "Write a book," quoth the author of my being.  "Don't know enough, sir. First live, then write."  "Try teaching again," suggested my mother.  "No thank you, ma'am, ten years of that is enough."  "Take a husband like my Darby, and fulfill your mission," said sister Joan, home on a visit.  "Can't afford expensive luxuries, Mrs. Coobiddy."  "Turn actress, and immortalize your name," said sister Vashti, striking an attitude.  "I won't."  "Go nurse the soldiers," said my young brother, Tom, panting for "the tented field."  "I will!"

Hospital Sketches

Louisa Alcott

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These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work.  If my girls find a little beauty or sunshine in these common blossoms, their old friend will not have made her Garland in vain.  L.M. ALCOTT.  SEPTEMBER, 1887.

Garland For Girls, The Original Classic : (louisa May Alcott Masterpiece Collection)

Life with seven boy cousins isn't quite what Rose expected. Left an orphan after her father's death, Rose Campbell is sent to live at the "Aunt Hill" with her six aunts and seven rowdy boy cousins. For someone who is used to a girl's boarding school, it all seems pretty overwhelming. Her guardian, Uncle Alec, makes her eat healthy things like oatmeal, and even tries to get her to give up her pretty dresses for drab, sensible clothes. Will Rose ever get used to her uncle's crazy notions and all her noisy relatives? Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, which she wrote in 1868. This novel was loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters. Source: Wikipedia

Eight Cousins

Richard S. Hartmetz

Louisa May Alcott was one of the greatest American authors of the 19th century.  Alcott's most famous work was her coming of age stories in the Little Women series and she also served as a nurse for the Union army in the Civil War.  This book contains great detail of Alcott's life, letters, and journals.  The book was edited by Ednah Cheney.

Louisa May Alcott

An Old-fashioned girl By Louisa May Alcott

Old-fashioned Girl

Life with seven boy cousins isn’t quite what Rose expected. Left an orphan after her father’s death, Rose Campbell is sent to live at the “Aunt Hill” with her six aunts and seven rowdy boy cousins. For someone who is used to a girl’s boarding school, it all seems pretty overwhelming. Her guardian, Uncle Alec, makes her eat healthy things like oatmeal, and even tries to get her to give up her pretty dresses for drab, sensible clothes. Will Rose ever get used to her uncle’s crazy notions and all her noisy relatives? Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known for her novel Little Women, written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts and published in 1868. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott spent her childhood in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts and after her family encountered financial difficulties she took on any jobs she could find, eventually turning her love of writing into a source of income where several of her poems and short stories appeared in many popular magazines. By the time she died on March 6, 1888, Louisa had published over 30 books and collections of stories.

Follow the life of Jo Bhaer and the students of the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband. The mischievous children whom she loves and cares for as her own learn valuable lessons as they become proper gentlemen and ladies.

Little Men

Moving away from the family setting of her best-known works, Louisa May Alcott explores both her own personal conflicts as a woman, as well as those experienced by her contemporaries in the unemancipated 19th century. Social justice and women's work are the central themes of this novel.If you've read and reread all of Louisa May Alcott's books, and loved her portrayals of brave girls trying to make their way in a harsh world, you must read this "lost" novel, "Work." It is well-written, engaging and humorous, very much in the same style as her other novels for girls, yet with more of a depth of maturity to her characters. If you've read "An Old Fashioned Girl" you will see a lot of "Polly" in the working girls portrayed in this novel. Readers are bound to enjoy this "new" Alcott novel!

Work : A Story Of Experience

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Jack And Jill

<p>Little Men is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's classic, Little Women. It tells the story of the children at Jo's school, the Plumfield Estate School. It is followed by the novel Jo's Boys, the third and final novel in the unofficial Little Women trilogy, in which the children introduced in this novel reach adulthood.</p>

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Hospital Sketches

Garland For Girls, The Original Classic : (louisa May Alcott Masterpiece Collection)

Eight Cousins

Louisa May Alcott

Old-fashioned Girl

Eight Cousins

Little Men

Work : A Story Of Experience

Jack And Jill

Little Men