Flower Fables, Paperback by Alcott, Louisa May, Brand New, Free shipping in t...
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Flower Fables, Paperback by Alcott, Louisa May, Brand New, Free shipping in t.... She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888. Flower Fables, Paperback by Alcott, Louisa May, ISBN 1542867363, ISBN-13 9781542867368, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A collection of her lesser known work, Flower Fables contains wildly imaginative stories that grew out of Alcott's experience as a storyteller to the children of her Concord, Connecticut, neighbors. Through these enticing encounters with fairies, elves, and animals, the author creates a foundation for young people based on the themes of love, kindness, and responsibility....Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David 's family suffered financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Hillside, later called the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, filmed several was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888.
