Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . h, and became favorite books inEngland. While editing Merrys Museum, she had written the firstpart of The Old-Fashioned Girl * as a serial for the magazine. Afterthe success of Little Women,* she carried the Old-Fashioned Girl*and her friends forward several years, and ended the story with twohappy marriages. In 1870 she went abroad a second time, and fromher return the next year until her death in Boston from overwork onMarch 6th, 1888, the day of her fathers funeral, she published twentyvolumes, including two novels: one anonymous,
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . h, and became favorite books inEngland. While editing Merrys Museum, she had written the firstpart of The Old-Fashioned Girl * as a serial for the magazine. Afterthe success of Little Women,* she carried the Old-Fashioned Girl*and her friends forward several years, and ended the story with twohappy marriages. In 1870 she went abroad a second time, and fromher return the next year until her death in Boston from overwork onMarch 6th, 1888, the day of her fathers funeral, she published twentyvolumes, including two novels: one anonymous, A Modern Mephisto-pheles,* in the No Name* series; the other, Work,* largely a recordof her own experience. She rewrote Moods,* and changed the sadending of the first version to a more cheerful one; followed the for-tunes of her Little Women* and their children in Little Men* andJos Boys,* and published ten volumes of short stories, many ofthem reprinted pieces. She wrote also Eight Cousins, its sequelRose in Bloom.* Lnder the Lilacs,* and Jack and Jill.*. LOUISA MAY aSS The charm of her books lies in their freshness, naturalness, andsympathy with the feelinjfs and pursuits of boys and j^firls. She saysof herself, I was born with a boys spirit under my bib and tucker,and she never lost it. Her style is often careless, never elegant, forshe wrote hurriedly, and never revised or even read over her manu-script: yet her books are full of humor and pathos, and preach thegospel of work and simple, wholesome living. She has been a helpand inspiration to many young girls, who have learned from her Join Little Women.* or Polly in the • Old-Fashioned Girl,* or Christiein *Work,* that a woman can support herself and her family withoutlosing caste or self-respect. Her stories of the comradeship of NewEngland boys and girls in scliool or play have made her a popularauthor in countries where even brothers and sisters see little of eachother. The haste and lack of care in her books
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