Little Women And Good Wives

Resumen del libro

Written in six weeks, and at first thought by its editor to be 'dull', this story of an American family - four sisters and their mother living through the months while father is away in the Civil War - has a universal and enduring appeal. The reason is clear. Louisa Alcott based her story on her own experience of family life.

'Not a bit sensational', she wrote, 'but simple and true, for we really lived most of it. ' When published in 1868, the book was illustrated by May Alcott, Louisa's mother. GOOD WIVES, a sequel to LITTEL WOMEN, was published in 1869, taking up the story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy three years on.

In 1912 an English artist, Millicent Etheldreda Gray, with a reputation for closely-worked studies of domestic settings, was commissioned by Hodder and Stoughton to paint twelve watercolours for this most long-lasting of all family stories. A new feature film of LITTLE WOMEN will be released by Columbia Pictures in 1995 starring Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon and directed by Gillian Armstrong.

Biografía del autor

Louisa May Alcott (Germantown, Filadelfia, 1832 - Boston, 1888) Hija de un maestro utópico, defensor del abolicionismo, del sufragio femenino y de la reforma de la educación, Louisa May Alcott empezó a trabajar siendo muy joven como maestra, costurera, institutriz, enfermera y escritora; su primer libro fue Flower Fables (1855), unos cuentos originariamente escritos para la hija de Ralph Waldo Emerson. El éxito le llegó a raíz de la publicación de Mujercitas (1868), un relato semiautobiográfico de su infancia y juventud junto a sus hermanas en Concord, Massachusetts, pero también fue autora de folletines con elementos góticos, que fueron muy leídas en su época.