The 150th Anniversary Edition of "Little Women" is a paperback published by SeaWolf Press, March 2, 2019, in honor of the original publication. "Little Women" started as a 23-chapter novel, published in 1868. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) wrote it for the money; she worked quickly for she had little enthusiasm for the subject. Its overnight success, however, caught her by surprise, and this led to a sequel in 1869. The two books are now traditionally published together as a single 47-chapter text.
This edition features the cover art and illustrations of the 1896 edition published by Little, Brown and Company. The illustrations - over 200 - were drawn by Frank T. Merrill (1848-1936), and first appeared in novel's the first illustrated edition, 1880. The illustrations will certainly interest anyone familiar with similar work seen in Dickens' novels.
The Foreword by Alice L. George, a historian with a PhD, says that the book was a big influence on notables like Gertrude Stein, Hillary Clinton, Danielle Steele, and J.K. Rowling. That is a curious claim since "Little Women" promotes values that liberated feminists have been pushing back on for a century: the idea that a woman's proper place is not to have a career but to get married and have babies; and to let the husband be the bread-winner. It is revealing that the four sister protagonists all have gifts (Amy is an artist, Jo, a writer, Beth, a musician) that could have led to independent careers, only to be abandoned for life as a housewife. It is also telling that the one sister who did not marry into this fate wound up dying young (with no apparent effort by the family to enlist medical aid throughout her months-long illness). This is all the more ironic when one remembers that Alcott was active in the women's suffrage movement, and remained unmarried her whole life.
Alice L. George despairs that "Little Women" is rarely read in schools today. This should not surprise anyone. In a word, "Little Women" would be considered old-fashioned: even the merest suggestion of a female playing the role of subservient wife and homemaker would be loudly rejected as sexist & misogynistic in today's prevailing woke school curriculum.
The author apparently was highly impressed by John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678), a 380-page church sermon published under the guise of a "novel." Alcott refers to Bunyan's book a number of times in "Little Women," which might explain the prevailing moralistic tone of her book (no smoking, no drinking, no foul language, no carousing with wild friends, etc).
Alcott's book mentions Charles Dickens' work (The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield) favorably. Personally, I would prefer to see people delving into Dickens' more realistic storylines versus Alcott's sentimentalized, outdated expectations of adulthood.
A note for those familiar with the 2019 movie with Timothee Chalamet: the character of Teddy "Laurie" Laurence is not a support character; Laurie is mentioned in almost every chapter in the book. The book could've been more accurately titled, "Little Women & A Man".
Also: there is another edition of this book being sold on Amazon.com and described as "Independently published (December 6, 2022)". This edition is listed as 472 pages long; the edition I read was published by SeaWolf Press: 150th Anniversary edition (March 2, 2019), and is 536 pages.
"Little Women" remains a giant in American literature 150 years after its release, but probably wouldn't be recommended as the go-to guidebook for today's coming-of-age female..
Highly recommended for those interested in reading this early American classic as the readers of the 1800s saw it.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2023
This edition features the cover art and illustrations of the 1896 edition published by Little, Brown and Company. The illustrations - over 200 - were drawn by Frank T. Merrill (1848-1936), and first appeared in novel's the first illustrated edition, 1880. The illustrations will certainly interest anyone familiar with similar work seen in Dickens' novels.
The Foreword by Alice L. George, a historian with a PhD, says that the book was a big influence on notables like Gertrude Stein, Hillary Clinton, Danielle Steele, and J.K. Rowling. That is a curious claim since "Little Women" promotes values that liberated feminists have been pushing back on for a century: the idea that a woman's proper place is not to have a career but to get married and have babies; and to let the husband be the bread-winner. It is revealing that the four sister protagonists all have gifts (Amy is an artist, Jo, a writer, Beth, a musician) that could have led to independent careers, only to be abandoned for life as a housewife. It is also telling that the one sister who did not marry into this fate wound up dying young (with no apparent effort by the family to enlist medical aid throughout her months-long illness). This is all the more ironic when one remembers that Alcott was active in the women's suffrage movement, and remained unmarried her whole life.
Alice L. George despairs that "Little Women" is rarely read in schools today. This should not surprise anyone. In a word, "Little Women" would be considered old-fashioned: even the merest suggestion of a female playing the role of subservient wife and homemaker would be loudly rejected as sexist & misogynistic in today's prevailing woke school curriculum.
The author apparently was highly impressed by John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678), a 380-page church sermon published under the guise of a "novel." Alcott refers to Bunyan's book a number of times in "Little Women," which might explain the prevailing moralistic tone of her book (no smoking, no drinking, no foul language, no carousing with wild friends, etc).
Alcott's book mentions Charles Dickens' work (The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield) favorably. Personally, I would prefer to see people delving into Dickens' more realistic storylines versus Alcott's sentimentalized, outdated expectations of adulthood.
A note for those familiar with the 2019 movie with Timothee Chalamet: the character of Teddy "Laurie" Laurence is not a support character; Laurie is mentioned in almost every chapter in the book. The book could've been more accurately titled, "Little Women & A Man".
Also: there is another edition of this book being sold on Amazon.com and described as "Independently published (December 6, 2022)". This edition is listed as 472 pages long; the edition I read was published by SeaWolf Press: 150th Anniversary edition (March 2, 2019), and is 536 pages.
"Little Women" remains a giant in American literature 150 years after its release, but probably wouldn't be recommended as the go-to guidebook for today's coming-of-age female..
Highly recommended for those interested in reading this early American classic as the readers of the 1800s saw it.
Still an American classic despite rejection by woke school culture
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2023
The 150th Anniversary Edition of "Little Women" is a paperback published by SeaWolf Press, March 2, 2019, in honor of the original publication. "Little Women" started as a 23-chapter novel, published in 1868. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) wrote it for the money; she worked quickly for she had little enthusiasm for the subject. Its overnight success, however, caught her by surprise, and this led to a sequel in 1869. The two books are now traditionally published together as a single 47-chapter text.Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2023
This edition features the cover art and illustrations of the 1896 edition published by Little, Brown and Company. The illustrations - over 200 - were drawn by Frank T. Merrill (1848-1936), and first appeared in novel's the first illustrated edition, 1880. The illustrations will certainly interest anyone familiar with similar work seen in Dickens' novels.
The Foreword by Alice L. George, a historian with a PhD, says that the book was a big influence on notables like Gertrude Stein, Hillary Clinton, Danielle Steele, and J.K. Rowling. That is a curious claim since "Little Women" promotes values that liberated feminists have been pushing back on for a century: the idea that a woman's proper place is not to have a career but to get married and have babies; and to let the husband be the bread-winner. It is revealing that the four sister protagonists all have gifts (Amy is an artist, Jo, a writer, Beth, a musician) that could have led to independent careers, only to be abandoned for life as a housewife. It is also telling that the one sister who did not marry into this fate wound up dying young (with no apparent effort by the family to enlist medical aid throughout her months-long illness). This is all the more ironic when one remembers that Alcott was active in the women's suffrage movement, and remained unmarried her whole life.
Alice L. George despairs that "Little Women" is rarely read in schools today. This should not surprise anyone. In a word, "Little Women" would be considered old-fashioned: even the merest suggestion of a female playing the role of subservient wife and homemaker would be loudly rejected as sexist & misogynistic in today's prevailing woke school curriculum.
The author apparently was highly impressed by John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678), a 380-page church sermon published under the guise of a "novel." Alcott refers to Bunyan's book a number of times in "Little Women," which might explain the prevailing moralistic tone of her book (no smoking, no drinking, no foul language, no carousing with wild friends, etc).
Alcott's book mentions Charles Dickens' work (The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield) favorably. Personally, I would prefer to see people delving into Dickens' more realistic storylines versus Alcott's sentimentalized, outdated expectations of adulthood.
A note for those familiar with the 2019 movie with Timothee Chalamet: the character of Teddy "Laurie" Laurence is not a support character; Laurie is mentioned in almost every chapter in the book. The book could've been more accurately titled, "Little Women & A Man".
Also: there is another edition of this book being sold on Amazon.com and described as "Independently published (December 6, 2022)". This edition is listed as 472 pages long; the edition I read was published by SeaWolf Press: 150th Anniversary edition (March 2, 2019), and is 536 pages.
"Little Women" remains a giant in American literature 150 years after its release, but probably wouldn't be recommended as the go-to guidebook for today's coming-of-age female..
Highly recommended for those interested in reading this early American classic as the readers of the 1800s saw it.
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