One of 5 special Puffin Classics created in collaboration with the V & A, with exquisite cover designs from their William Morris collection.
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
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