小妇人读书笔记英文Little Women

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. 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. With her pen name Louisa wrote novels for young adults in juvenile hall.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, 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. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888.

Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown. On her father's 33rd birthday. She was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest; Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest. Bronson Alcott's opinions on education and tough views on child-rearing shaped young Alcott's mind with a desire to achieve perfection, a goal of the transcendentalists.

Alcott died at age 55 of a stroke in Boston, on March 6, 1888. Two days after her father's death. She is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, near Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau, on a hillside now known as "Authors' Ridge

Louisa May Alcott wrote from the heart. It was based on author’s own experiences. Little Women is the story of the Marches, a family used to hard toil and suffering. The novel doesn’t have fantastic plot, and the author described the happy family life with simple language. However, this is a story of how they growing up and their happy family life. It has become a much loved classic tale and many of the trials among the sisters are relevant to today’s family life.

It tells a story of the March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Their father is away fighting in the war, they live with their mother. Mrs. March is the authority of the family. She attaches importance to the education of the girl and teaches them many precious virtues. Although they are poor, she still helps people who are poorer. For instance, she tells her children there is a family who is starving and asks girls if they can give their breakfast as presents to the poor family. The education ways of Mrs. March are valuable. She is no doubt a qualifier mother.

Meg is the eldest one in the family. She has a sweet and pious nature, which unconsciously influenced her sisters, especially Jo. But she also has shortcoming. At last she corrects it and marries a man who is not rich but loves her very much.