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Beschreibung

A modern biography of an ambivalent rebel and irreverent feminist who became, in spite of herself, one of our most popular authors.

While most readers know her only from her beloved classic Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys, her journey to become one of American's best known authors was full of twists and turns. Daughter of a prominent educator, her early life was filled with encounters with such notables and Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other prominent intellectuals of the day. But her rise to literary fame marred by poverty and war, and hindered by her unconventional ideas about slavery, women's rights and politics.

Author Martha Saxton shows how her transendentalist father, activist mother, and three sisters not only influenced her world view, but became the basis for stories of the March family, beloved the world over.

A modern biography of an ambivalent rebel and irreverent feminist who became, in spite of herself, one of our most popular authors.

While most readers know her only from her beloved classic Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys, her journey to become one of American's best known authors was full of twists and turns. Daughter of a prominent educator, her early life was filled with encounters with such notables and Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other prominent intellectuals of the day. But her rise to literary fame marred by poverty and war, and hindered by her unconventional ideas about slavery, women's rights and politics.

Author Martha Saxton shows how her transendentalist father, activist mother, and three sisters not only influenced her world view, but became the basis for stories of the March family, beloved the world over.

Über den Autor
Martha Saxton (1945-2023) was a historian and biographer. She wrote Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America and biographies of Mary Washington, Louisa May Alcott, and Jayne Mansfield. Saxton received a PhD from Columbia University before joining the faculty at Amherst College, where she taught history and women's studies for twenty years.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780374524609
ISBN-10: 0374524602
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Saxton, Martha
Hersteller: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Martha Saxton
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.1995
Gewicht: 0,741 kg
Artikel-ID: 101283840

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