Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, which helps us understand this literary work. We must pay special attention to those events that especially influenced the world of culture and art and also to those events that were especially reflected in literature, in the life of its writer or that affected it. There are many examples in which historical events have shaped the content and forms of literature, as well as this has often been the best testimony to the importance of certain events throughout history. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its period. Louisa May Alcott (Germantown, Pennsylvania; November 29, 1832 - Boston, Massachusetts; March 6, 1888) was an American writer, recognized for her famous novel Little Women (1868). Committed to the abolitionist movement and suffrage, she wrote under the pseudonym of A. M. Barnard a collection of novels and stories dealing with taboo subjects for the time such as adultery and incest. Her parents were Abigail ("Abba") May and the transcendentalist educator, writer, and philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott, linked to abolitionism.