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Louisa May Alcott: Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Stories & Other Writings: (Library of America #256)
Louisa May Alcott Work Eight Cousins Rose in Bloom Stories Other Writings - Library of America #256 Author:Louisa May Alcott Pioneereing feminist novels and rare stories from the author of Little Women: After the success of her much beloved masterpiece Little Women, Louisa May Alcott brought her genius for characterization and eye for detail to a series of revolutionary novels and stories remarkable for their forthright assertion of women?s rights. In the largely auto... more »biographical Work: A Story of Experience (1873), twenty-one-year-old orphan Christie Devon announces “a new Declaration of Independence? and leaves her uncle?s house in order to pursue economic self-sufficiency through a variety of jobs: servant, actress, governess, companion, and seamstress, among others. Eight Cousins (1875) and its sequel Rose in Bloom (1876) follow the fate of Rose Campbell, another orphan, who, with the benefit of a progressive education and the good and bad examples of her many crisply drawn relations, charts her own course to fulfillment and love. All three novels are presented with beautifully restored line art from the original editions and supplemented by seven hard-to-find stories and public letters (two restored to print for the first time in more than a century), a chronology of Alcott?s life, and notes identifying Alcott?s many allusions and quotations, and the autobiographical episodes in her fiction.« less
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