Little Women

• Main Authors: Alcott, Louisa May 1832-1888 (Author), Vogel, Malvina G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: Pablo Marcos Studios (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Baronet Books 2003
• Series: Priory classics
• Subjects: March family (Fictitious characters) > Juvenile fiction; Family > Juvenile fiction > New England; Sisters > Juvenile fiction > New Zealand
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• Physical Description: 238 pages 20 cm
• ISBN: 075939878x; 9780759398788

This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868-69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcott's own precursors to Little Women. "Criticism" reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Barbara Sicherman). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.