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10 best books like Louisa May Alcott (Susan Cheever): Jane Austen: A Life, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, Dickens, The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography, John Donne: The Reformed Soul, Louisa May Alcott: A Biography: With an Introduction to the New Edition, The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants, George Eliot: The Last Victorian, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories

Jane Austen: A Life
AuthorCarol Shields
ISBN0143035169
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early...
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
AuthorJohn Matteson
ISBN0393059642
Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson, an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and...
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
AuthorHarriet Reisen
ISBN0805082999
A vivid, energetic account of the life of Louisa May Alcott, whose work has delighted millions of readers

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...
Dickens
AuthorPeter Ackroyd
ISBN0099437090
Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.

Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a picture of Victorian rectitude, but whose...
The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography
AuthorMargaret Lane
ISBN0723246769
After watching the wonderful movie "Miss Potter" starring Renee Zellweger, I had to read this 1946 biography of Beatrix Potter written right after her death at age 77. It was published by the same company -- Frederick Warne & Co., Inc. -- that published her famous children's books. I was pleased...
John Donne: The Reformed Soul
AuthorJohn Stubbs
ISBN0393062600
Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets, concentrating the paradoxes of his age within his own crises of desire and devotion. Following Donne from Plague-ridden streets to palaces, from the taverns...
Louisa May Alcott: A Biography: With an Introduction to the New Edition
AuthorMadeleine B. Stern
ISBN1555534171
Louisa May Alcott really was an amazing woman. I knew her only from the four books about the March family (given that a fair majority of South African books are obtained from British publishers/printers we have Good Wives, rather than two parts of Little Women). I knew that she'd written some other books,...
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants
AuthorAlexandra Popoff
The six literary wives in the book, Anna Dostoevsky, Sophia Tolstoy, Véra Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Natalya Solzhenitsyn were muses, intellectual companions, and indispensable aids to Russia’s most celebrated writers. Popoff draws from the women’s autobiographical...
George Eliot: The Last Victorian
AuthorKathryn Hughes
ISBN0815411219
Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot (1819-1880) achieved lasting renown with the novels Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Adam Bede. Her masterworks were written after years of living an unconventional life, including a scandalous voyage to Europe with the married writer and editor George Henry Lewes....
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories
AuthorJenny Uglow
ISBN0374147515
Winner of the Portico Prize
Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters. This biography traces Elizabeth's...
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
AuthorAlfred Habegger
ISBN0812966015
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography,...
The Brontë Myth
AuthorLucasta Miller
ISBN1400078350
Following the Brontë sisters through their many reincarnations at the hands of biographers, Lucasta Miller reveals as much about the impossible art of biography as she does about the Brontës themselves. Their first biographer, Mrs Gaskell, transformed their story of literary ambition into one...
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
AuthorMegan Marshall
ISBN0618711694
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters — and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day — has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall's monumental biograpy brings the era of creative...
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
AuthorDorothy Wordsworth
ISBN0192840622
Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the insight they give into the daily life of the poet and his friendship with Coleridge, they are also remarkable for their spontaneity and...
Teresa of Ávila: An Extraordinary Life
AuthorShirley du Boulay
ISBN0974240524
This intelligent, balanced portrait of an irreverent, intense, and fiery Renaissance woman and her times includes moving excerpts from her letters and sublime spiritual writings. Her unconventional, progressive views on prayer and worship, her outstanding administrative and literary talents,...
Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
AuthorLyndall Gordon
ISBN0393314480
This critically acclaimed portrait of Charlotte Brontë looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, to reveal a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Drawing on Brontë's unpublished letters, journals,...
The Journals Of Louisa May Alcott
AuthorLouisa May Alcott
ISBN0316593621
I don't think I'd say that Louisa May Alcott kept "copious" journals... most of what she wrote seemed succinct and to-the-point. She decribes herself as moody, but her entries are full of humor and fun. I often wished she had included a little more detail about the people she wrote about there - I wondered...
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
AuthorLinda Lear
ISBN0312369344
There is an alternate cover to 0141003103

Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, and many other Beatrix Potter characters remain in the hearts of millions. However, though Potter is a household name around the world, few know the woman behind the illustrations. Her personal life, including a romantic...
Ten Girls Who Made History
AuthorIrene Howat
ISBN1857928377
These Christian women were once little girls playing with dolls, making mistakes and growing up in quite a different world. But was it that different? Irene Howat has researched the lives of these famous women of God and draws out lessons we can all relate to, especially youngsters today. Featuring...
Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
AuthorEve LaPlante
ISBN1451620675
Marmee & Louisa, hailed by NPR as one of the best books of 2012, paints an exquisitely moving and utterly convincing portrait of Louisa May Alcott and her mother, the real Marmee. Award-winning biographer Eve LaPlante mines the Alcotts' intimate diaries and other private papers, some recently...
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
AuthorMary Henley Rubio
ISBN0385659830
Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery’s life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery – her son, maids, friends, relatives,...
Sisters of Fortune: America’s Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad
AuthorJehanne Wake
As gripping as the best historical novel, Sisters of Fortune is the story of the exuberant Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the American sisters who enthralled the highest levels of English Regency society decades before the notorious Dollar Princesses of the Victorian era. The Caton sisters...
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