Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women,Library
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 journa