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May Alcott was thirty-five in 1868, when her phenomenally popular Little Women was published. ... Alcott herself records how one little girl wept violently and could not be comforted that this sharp-featured, dark, middle-aged woman was ...
May Alcott was thirty-five in 1868, when her phenomenally popular Little Women was published. ... Alcott herself records how one little girl wept violently and could not be comforted that this sharp-featured, dark, middle-aged woman was ...
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The story of Little Women is about this incessant stimulating of the moral will; events, Marmee, Father, and her own conscience continually intensify Jo's struggle to subdue herself. She rejects the charming Laurie who is so like her ...
The story of Little Women is about this incessant stimulating of the moral will; events, Marmee, Father, and her own conscience continually intensify Jo's struggle to subdue herself. She rejects the charming Laurie who is so like her ...
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May died in 1879 after an interesting if minor artistic career and a short, happy marriage. In the tale, Alcott depicts two women, idealistically modeled on herself and May, who love each other deeply; both are artists, ...
May died in 1879 after an interesting if minor artistic career and a short, happy marriage. In the tale, Alcott depicts two women, idealistically modeled on herself and May, who love each other deeply; both are artists, ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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