Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women (Audible Audio Edition) Harriet Reisen Tantor Audio Books
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Louisa May Alcott portrays a writer as worthy of interest in her own right as her most famous character, Jo March, and addresses all aspects of Alcott's life the effect of her father's self-indulgent utopian schemes; her family's chronic economic difficulties and frequent uprootings; her experience as a nurse in the Civil War; and the loss of her health and frequent recourse to opiates in search of relief from migraines, insomnia, and symptomatic pain.
Stories and details culled from Alcott's journals; her equally rich letters to family, friends, publishers, and admiring readers; and the correspondence, journals, and recollections of her family, friends, and famous contemporaries provide the basis for this lively account of the author's classic rags-to-riches tale. Alcott would become the equivalent of a multimillionaire in her lifetime based on the astounding sales of her books, leaving contemporaries like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry James in the dust. This biography explores Alcott's life in the context of her works, all of which are to some extent autobiographical. A fresh, modern take on this remarkable and prolific writer, who secretly authored pulp fiction, harbored radical abolitionist views, and completed heroic service as a Civil War nurse, Louisa May Alcott is also the story of how the all-time beloved American classic Little Women came to be. This revelatory portrait will present the popular author as she was and as she has never been seen before.
Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women (Audible Audio Edition) Harriet Reisen Tantor Audio Books
Despite having enjoyed reading an earlier biography on the Alcott family (Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson), I was thankful that I decided to read this biography as well. I learned even more and was impressed with the writer, Harriet Reisen, who should be credited with in-depth and thorough research. It did strike me that this book put forth a bit more of a negative viewpoint of Bronson Alcott throughout than did John Matteson’s book (my impression). Perhaps it was the woman’s point of view. Given everything that the family put up with, I had to agree. I found a lot to interest me in this book and thought it was very sensitively written with lots of detail and new information. I found particularly fascinating the process by which Louisa’s probable cause of death was determined. It was a highly enjoyable and informative reading experience.Product details
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Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women (Audible Audio Edition) Harriet Reisen Tantor Audio Books Reviews
This biography is everything that a good bio should be - well researched, full of interesting historical information from the life and times of Louisa May Alcott, and a juicy, fascinating story. I couldn't put it down. The Alcott family is so quirky, enough to drive anyone quite mad. For a free-spirited woman like Louisa, the tension is always between her "duty" to this family, and her desire to escape into her own creativity and freedom. There is abundant description of the other members of the Transcendentalist community, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and the many others who were neighbors and friends of the Alcotts, and who often had to bail them out of penury. Harriet Reisen has done a magnificent job of writing this story. It is a wonderfully readable, delicious, and compelling biography. I highly recommend it!
Wow ... I had no idea ... Fabulous details and research ... very interesting read. The people that Louisa knew and came in contact with ... was just her DESTINY ... no way around it. I wanted the book to go on and on ... what a treasure.
Well-written biography by a genuine enthusiast. Louisa May Alcott was not the sentimentalist you might imagine from Little Women, and here's the place to find out. I'm now reading some of LMA's lesser known works - always the sign of a good literary biography if it makes you turn back to the author for more.
I had to reluctantly give this book 4 stars because the first half of the book is a bit tedious. The second half though takes off like a rocket!
I've read several good bios of LMA and wasn't sure I'd learn anything new but I learned a ton of new things. LMA was a complicated person to be sure, with many medical, emotional and possibly psychological issues (I can't help thinking that her digestive troubles, while having a legitimate physical cause, were fueled by anxiety - I've seen this in my own family).
Reisen is the first LMA biographer to really turn me on to Louisa's books. I know that must sound strange, but I became passionate about Louisa, the woman, long before I desired to read her books. Reisen's description of her first success, Hospital Sketches, drove me to read that book and it was wonderful! Now I've lined up a bunch of Alcott's more adult books to read on Google Books.
I found her treatment of the often confusing Bronson Alcott (at least to me) very good. She's the first author I've found who successfully traced Bronson's transition from young narcissist/idealist to older and gentler sage/philosopher. It actually made sense for the first time. I walked away with the usual conflicted feelings about him, but also a nicer feeling too.
My only other criticism is that Reisen sometimes make assumptions about Louisa that nearly jump the shark, inserting her own opinion into the book a little too much.
It astonishes me that it look so long for people to realize how ahead of her time Louisa was. She was a feminist in the true sense of the word, before it was 'cool', and under a LOT more duress.
Madeleine Stern's bio is the best; Harriet Reisen's comes in a close second. Enjoy!
In May, I read Harriet Reisen's excellent biography of Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women, and have to say that of the three bios I have read of LMA, I think I enjoyed this one the most.
I began, knowing the story of LMA's life, feeling that old frustration with her father, A. Bronson Alcott. In the other bios, Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson and Marmee and Louisa The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother by Eve LaPlante, Bronson is really portrayed unsympathetically as someone who simply would not rise up to his familial responsibilities and work to support his family regardless of his personal aspirations to be a thinking man.
Reisen, early in the book, suggests that Bronson suffered from a mental illness that prevented him from acting differently than he did. I still found him frustrating and gritted my teeth when he scolded LMA for her shortcomings (in his eyes), but I found myself understanding him better and especially understanding better LMA's forgiveness and tenderness towards him as their lives drew to a close For that alone, I am glad I read this book.
The other thing this bio gave me that the others did not was an appreciation for her other works (i.e., other than Little Women) and a desire to read some of her potboilers. In fact, I just received a copy of Behind a Mask The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, which is an anthology of some of the better sensationalist stories she published. I've been mulling over what to read for the Back to the Classic challenge in the category of Forgotten Classic, and I think this should fit the bill nicely.
It makes sense that this bio would inspire me to read more of LMA's works as it does set out to tell the story of how Louey. as her mother called her, became a successful and renowned and beloved author. I enjoyed reading the notes that LMA as an adult wrote in the margins of her own letters and journals and stories from her youth. We are so lucky that even though she burnt a good deal of her personal writing, she kept much for posterity to study and enjoy.
I came away from this bio with a renewed admiration for LMA--her courage, her wit, her fortitude, and her talent. She struggled with identity, but in the end, was able to accomplish what she set out for herself. Truly a remarkable person.
Despite having enjoyed reading an earlier biography on the Alcott family (Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson), I was thankful that I decided to read this biography as well. I learned even more and was impressed with the writer, Harriet Reisen, who should be credited with in-depth and thorough research. It did strike me that this book put forth a bit more of a negative viewpoint of Bronson Alcott throughout than did John Matteson’s book (my impression). Perhaps it was the woman’s point of view. Given everything that the family put up with, I had to agree. I found a lot to interest me in this book and thought it was very sensitively written with lots of detail and new information. I found particularly fascinating the process by which Louisa’s probable cause of death was determined. It was a highly enjoyable and informative reading experience.
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