Book description
The fourth and last book about the March family.
Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, there is now a
college, built with a legacy from old Mr Lawrence. All Jo's original
children are grown young men, scattered around the world, and graceful
young women with high ambitions. But young men face as many troubles
as children do, and they are still 'Jo's boys'.
Louisa May Alcott (1832 88) was brought up in Pennsylvania, USA.
She turned to writing in order to supplement the family income and had
many short stories published in magazines and newspapers. Then, in
1862, during the height of the American Civil War, Louisa went to
Georgetown to work as a nurse, but she contracted typhoid. Out of her
experiences she wrote Hospital Sketches (1864) which won wide
acclaim, followed by an adult novel, Moods.
She was reluctant to write a children's book but then realized that
in herself and her three sisters she had the perfect models. The
result was Little Women (1868) which became the earliest
American children's novel to become a classic
