A Hopeful Heart: Louisa May Alcott before Little Women
Deborah Noyes
This biography explores Louisa May Alcott’s family life and the circumstances preceding Little Women. It considers how the characters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy came to be. As a young person, Alcott was a tomboy and an eager reader who found comfort in fictional characters as passionate and willful as she was. Her own imagination and her family’s unusual circumstances form the basis for this account of the writer before Little Women.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
