Invincible Louisa (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Cornelia Lynde Meigs
- First Published: 1933
- Time of Work: 1832–1888
- Setting: Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Louisa May Alcott, Bronson Alcott, Abba May Alcott, Anna Alcott, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, May Alcott
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Philosophy or philosophers, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Poverty or poor people, Novelists, Civil War, Biography, Transcendentalism
- Locales: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
Form and Content
In Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of “Little Women,” Cornelia Meigs has written a biography that reflects the political, social, and economic history of the times in which Louisa May Alcott lived. Meigs records the poverty that her family endured and its involvement in two cooperative experimental communities, the socialist Brook Farm and the vegetarian Fruitlands. She also examines the closeness of the Alcotts, their reaction to slavery, the Civil War, women’s rights, and educational reforms.
Bronson Alcott, a noted philosopher...
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