Louisa May ALCOTT (1832 - 1888)
A Garland for Girls
MP3 CD
(IDB Productions Sept. 3, 2017)
A Garland for Girls includes: May Flowers; An Ivy Spray and Ladies' Slippers; Pansies; Water-Lilies; Poppies and Wheat; Little button-rose; and Mountain-Laurel and Maiden-Hair. These tales were composed for Louisa’s own entertainment throughout a term of imposed isolation. The blossoms which were her comfort and fascination proposed labels for the stories and offered delight to the book. If her little girls discover a small attraction or sunlight in these natural flowers, their close chums will not have made her Garland worthless. Louisa May Alcott was part of the Abolitionism in the United States, a movement in the American Civil War to end slavery in the country and associated with feminism, a range of political and social movement with the main objective to attain and carry out political, economic, personal, and social rights for women. Louisa May Alcott was a US writer and poet well known as the writer of the story Little Women and its series Little Men and Jo's Boys . Nurtured by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she was also raised by the several renowned highbrows of those times including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Louisa’s family went impoverished, and at the moment she took a job to provide sustenance for her family at a very young age, she also found an interest in composing novels and poetry. She started to earn significant fame for her works in the 1860s. In her first years as a writer, she would at times made use of the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, upon which she created stories for teenagers. Little Women is situated in the Alcott family house, Hillside, afterwards referred as the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is roughly sourced out on her life as a child together with her three sisters. The story was much recognized and remains to be a famous kiddie story until now, shown into the big screen for so many times.
- ISBN
- 1776729757 / 9781776729753
- Weight
- 3.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 5.5
in.