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Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Publisher: N.Y.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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While editing Merry's Museum, she had written the first
part of ' The Old-Fashioned Girl ' as a serial for the magazine. After
the success of ' Little Women,' she carried the ' Old-Fashioned Girl '
and her friends forward several years, and ended the story with two
happy marriages. In 1870 she went abroad a second time, and fromh
er return the next year until her death in Boston from overwork on
March 6th, 1888, the day of her father's funeral, she published twenty
volumes, including two novels: one anonymous, ' A Modern Mephisto-
pheles,' in the ' No Name ' series; the other, ' Work,' largely a record
of her own experience. She rewrote ' Moods,' and changed the sad
ending of the first version to a more cheerful one; followed the for-
tunes of her ' Little Women ' and their children in ' Little Men ' and
' Jo's Boys,' and published ten volumes of short stories, many of
them reprinted pieces. She wrote also ' Eight Cousins,' its sequel
' Rose in Bloom,' ' Under the Lilacs,' and ' Jack and Jill.'
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HOME OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, CONCORD LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 285

The charm of her books lies in their freshness, naturalness, and
sympathy with the feelings and pursuits of boys and girls. She says
of herself, ' I was born with a boy's spirit under my bib and tucker,
and she never lost it. Her style is often careless, never elegant, for
she wrote hurriedly, and never revised or even read over her manu-
script; yet her books are full of humor and pathos, and preach th
gospel of work and simple, wholesome living. She has been a help
and inspiration to many young girls, who have learned from her Jo
in ' Little Women,' or Polly in the ' Old-Fashioned Girl,' or Christie
in ' Work,' that a woman can support herself and her family without
losing caste or self-respect. Her stories of the comradeship of New
England boys and girls in school or play have made her a popular
author in countries where even brothers and sisters see little of each
other. The haste and lack of care in her books are the result of
writing under pressure for money to support the family to whom
she gave the best years of her life.

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