Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott

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of family life, dramatist and producer learned from many unconscious sources the depth of Louisa M. Alcott's human appeal

ave such homes," said a big, prosperous-looking ma

cosily into her fur coat and tucked a bunch of violets away from the touch of the fro

four Little Women, the Alcott girls, whom Louisa immortalized in her greatest story: Anna, who is Meg in "Little Women"; Lou

ys except those that led to material success, and the wise and gentle mother combined with her loyalty and devotion to her

ement that the only long story she could write would be about her own family. "Little Women" resulted, and, in erecting this House of Delight for young and old, Louisa Alcott builded better than she knew. Her

in a stage career, beginning to "act" before a mirror, with a kitchen apron for a train and a buttonhook for a dagger. The other, alwa

eatrical history that they visited the scenes hallowed by the memories of the Little Women. T

hing reverently the small personal effects of Louisa M. Alcott, seeing the shelf between the windows in that little upper room, where she wrote and dreamed. They even climbed to the garret a

losophy, half hidden among the trees, where Bronson Alcott had his Conversations, where Emer

Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne close by-a goodly company, neighbors still as

ded, the quaint, old-fashioned writing was hard to decipher, but, beginning with a letter to Lou

reveal the rare spiritual companionship existing between the Alcott parents and children. And, asking, they were refused, because of a feeling that the letters and

that Bronson Alcott and Louisa Alcott are a part of America's literar

nths of waiting. And thus, with the consent of the Alcott heirs, th