Stern, Madeleine B., — Louisa May Alcott.

Norman, Univ of Oklahoma Press, (1971). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Pictorial pink drawing on cover shows Alcott at her desk writing. Alcott encompassed in her own family all the. relationships of life and who was therefore able to touch the pulse of humanity in her writings. This success life story is divided into her struggles before Little Women and after a study of her success that is deeply American in nature. Her life is reconstructed from the mass of material published and unpublished about the writer and her times - autograph and manuscript material, contemporary journals, memoirs, and diaries. Also appended is a numbered bibliography of Alcott's writings, including newly identified pseudonymous and anonymous stories. Made possible by a Guggenheim grant to Stern.