It’s also about the Bellas themselves, a group of misfits who found something to unite them: smartly using lyrics and mashups to put down the haters. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case. Since then, she has carved out a successful career in both commercial illustration and fine art, working for clients including The Wall Street Journal, Harper Collins and Random House, while also creating work for exhibitions and personal projects. A couple of small tears to rear panel of jacket, lower front corner of board bumped, some surface rubbing has caused fading of pink along page edges in places, bright and unmarked. The two parts were published as a single novel in 1880; the story has never lost its appeal, and, 150 years later, the feminist leanings of the female-led narrative still resonate.

They take Amy to Europe with them, where Uncle Carrol frequently tries to be like an English gentleman.

Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co. The sequel was written to appease Alcotts many fans, who had been begging the author for more information about the March sisters future experiences—namely whom, and how well, they married. The novel pulls you into the family circle - to meet with all the love and drama the Marches encounter. She followed it with three sequels, Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886) and she also wrote other books for both children and adults. The first adventure in the Folio Society editions of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ series, Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood features Jonathan Burton’s enchanting illustrations and a new introduction by Michael Morpurgo.

While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant.An early anonymous review in the Nation (October 22, 1868) quietly praises Little Women as "an agreeable little story, which is not only very well adapted to the readers for whom it is especially intended, but may also be read with pleasure by older people. BOTH VOLS SLIGHT LEAN , PART 1ST HAS 341 PGS + ADS THRU Arthur Helps s Writings, PART 2ND HAS 359 PGS + ADS THRU THE PEGEON PIE, BOTH VOLS. These sisters, and in particular Jo, were apprehensive about adulthood because they were afraid that, by conforming to what society wanted, they would lose their special individuality. Often coddled because she is the youngest, Amy can behave in a vain and self-centered way, though she does still love her family.

The 3-episode 2017 series development was supported by PBS, and was aired as part of the PBS Masterpiece anthology in 2018. Featuring extraordinary illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and an exclusive introduction by Janina Ramirez, each of the 750 numbered copies has been signed by both contributors. Etsy does not evaluate the description, condition, or authenticity of any of the antique little women book that are listed by individual sellers on Etsy. The first volume, alternately titled Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, was published in 1868, and the second volume, Good Wives, was published in 1869. Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers were eager for more about the characters.After determining that her inclusion of too many controversial ideas about marriage had hurt sales of Moods, Alcott decided to make her girls book idea-free: "My next book shall have no ideas in it, only facts, and the people shall be as ordinary as possible. This copy belonged to Elizabeth Colt Jarvis Beach, niece of Elizabeth Jarvis Colt, the "First Lady of Hartford" who took over operations of Colt Firearms, the company her husband Col. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates; those in the first part of Little Women were created by the author’s sister, May. The first one was George Cukor’s 1933 version, which cast Katharine Hepburn as Jo, followed by the 1949 Mervyn LeRoy adaptation, and the 1994 film directed by Gilliam Armstrong, the first one directed, adapted, and produced by women.