Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and JournalsLouisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals is a detailed biography that delves into the life of the famous American author. The book includes extracts from her personal correspondence and diary entries, offering readers a unique perspective on her personal journey, inspirations, and challenges. It covers her childhood, her experiences as a writer, and her relationships with family and friends, providing a rich and nuanced portrait of this influential figure. more
“To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.”
Source: A Modern Mephistopheles
“Mothers can forgive anything!”
Source: Jo's Boys: In Easy-to-Read Type
“Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.”
Source: Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell
“Dolls are safe companions.”
“Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)
“Sympathy is a sweet thing.”
Source: Little Men: Fife at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
“where I wholly love I wholly trust.”
Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
“The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.”
Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…
“It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.”
Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
“I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.”
Source: Little Women