Louisa May Alcott by Harriet ReisenGet other Biography AudioBooks here Louisa May Alcott portrays a writer as worthy of interest in her own right as her most famous character Jo March and addresses all aspects of Alcott’s life: the effect of her father’s self-indulgent utopian schemes; her family’s chronic economic difficulties and frequent uprootings; her experience as a nurse in the Civil War; and the loss of her health and frequent recourse to opiates in search of relief from migraines insomnia and symptomatic pain. Stories and details culled from Alcott’s journals; her equally rich letters to family friends publishers and admiring readers; and the correspondence journals and recollections of her family friends and famous contemporaries provide the basis for this lively account of the author’s classic rags-to-riches tale.Alcott would become the equivalent of a multimillionaire in her lifetime based on the astounding sales of her books leaving contemporaries like Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville and Henry James in the dust. This biography explores Alcott’s life in the context of her works click to go
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