Little Women at 150 by Daniel Shealy - 9781496837998

Little Women at 150Author(s): Daniel Shealy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496837998, 978-1496837998\nSynopsis\nContributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Anne K. Phillips, Daniel Shealy, and Roberta Seelinger Trites\n\n As the golden age of childrens literature dawned in America in the mid-1860s, Louisa May Alcotts Little Women, a work that many scholars view as one of the first realistic novels for young people, soon became a classic. Never out of print, Alcotts tale of four sisters growing up in nineteenth-century New England has been published in more than fifty countries around the world. Over the century and a half since its publication, the novel has grown into a cherished book for girls and boys alike. Readers as diverse as Carson McCullers, Gloria Steinem, Theodore Roosevelt, Patti Smith, .