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Louisa May ALCOTT bibliografia a cura della Biblioteca Panizzi in collaborazione col gruppo FB “Louisa May Alcott pagina italiana” MARZO 2017 Louisa May Alcott (Germantown, 29 novembre 1832 – Boston, 6 marzo 1888) scrittrice statunitense, principalmente nota come l'autrice della tetralogia di libri per ragazzi Piccole donne. Nacque a Germantown, una cittadina fondata da Quaccheri tedeschi e Anabattisti Mennoniti ora integrata nella città di Philadelphia; era figlia del noto filosofo trascendentalista Amos Bronson Alcott e della suffragetta e attivista Abby May, che discendeva dalle famiglie Quincy e Sewell di Boston. Louisa era la seconda di quattro sorelle e anche le altre tre raggiunsero una loro notorietà: Anna Alcott Pratt, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott e Abigail May Alcott Nieriker. La famiglia si trasferì a Boston nel 1838, dove il padre fondò una scuola sperimentale ed entrò a far parte di un club trascendentalista con Ralph Waldo Emerson e Henry David Thoreau. Nel 1840 la famiglia Alcott si trasferì nuovamente, stavolta verso un cottage dotato di due acri di terreno lungo il Sudbury River a Concord, nel Massachusetts. Per un breve periodo, dal 1843 al 1844, la famiglia visse in una comunità agricola chiamata Utopian Fruitlands, fondata da Amos Bronson Alcott e Charles Lane. Dopo il suo scioglimento, si stabilirono definitivamente a Concord. Ricevette un'istruzione privata e tra i suoi insegnanti ci sono stati Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne e Margaret Fuller, tutti amici di famiglia, il naturalista Henry David Thoreau, oltre che il padre Amos Bronson. Di queste esperienze lasciò un resoconto giornalistico intitolato "Transcendental Wild Oats" (poi ripubblicato in Silver Pitchers, del 1876). A causa delle condizioni economiche in cui gravava la famiglia, fu costretta a lavorare fin da giovane come insegnante occasionale, sarta, governante, colf e, in seguito, scrittrice. Iniziò proprio in questo periodo a intensificare la scrittura, lavorando a Flower Fables (pubblicato nel 1849), fiabe che originariamente scrisse per Ellen Emerson, figlia di Ralph Waldo. Nel frattempo, insieme alla famiglia, lavorava alla rete clandestina Underground Railroad che favoriva la fuga e l'espatrio degli schiavi di colore. Nel 1848 lesse e apprezzò la "Dichiarazione dei Sentimenti", atti della Conferenza di Seneca Falls sui diritti delle donne. Crebbe dunque come un'abolizionista e una femminista. Divenuta sostenitrice del suffragio universale esteso alle donne, fu ben presto la prima donna di Concord a iscriversi a votare per un'elezione di cariche scolastiche[8]. Il decennio successivo fu per la famiglia Alcott un periodo assai duro, nel 1857 Louisa non riusciva a trovare lavoro e meditò il suicidio. Nello stesso anno lesse la biografia di Charlotte Brontë scritta da Elizabeth Gaskell. Nel 1858, la sorella minore Lizzie morì e la sorella maggiore Anna andò sposa a John Pratt, fatti che lei percepì come la definitiva rottura della sorellanza. La madre morì nel 1877, nel 1879 morì anche la sorella più piccola, May, e Louisa adottò la figlia della sorella, Louisa May Nieriker ("Lulu"), che aveva allora solo due anni. Nel 1882 il padre fu colpito da paralisi e Louisa ne divenne la fedele assistente. Morì a Boston il 6 marzo 1888 a causa di un ictus, due giorni dopo aver visitato il padre sul letto di morte. La morte fu attribuita a un avvelenamento da mercurio, contratto durante la Guerra Civile Americana (per la quale era partita come infermiera volontaria), quando era stata curata con un composto a base di questa sostanza. CARRIERA LETTERARIA Il suo primo libro è stato Flower Fables del 1855, una raccolta di racconti originariamente scritti per Ellen Emerson, la figlia di Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nel 1860, Louisa inizia a scrivere per l'Atlantic Mounthly. Allo scoppio della guerra di secessione americana, lavorò (dal 1862 al 1863) come infermiera all'Union Hospital a Georgetown. Nelle lettere da lei inviate durante il periodo di servizio all'ospedale, pubblicate e riviste nel Commonwealth e raccolte in Hospital Sketches (1863, ripubblicato con aggiunte nel 1869), diede dimostrazione di un arguto spirito di osservazione e di senso dell'umorismo che le valsero le prime recensioni positive, compreso il promettente romanzo Mood del 1864, basato su sue esperienze realmente vissute. Scrisse storie appassionanti e storie sensazionali sotto lo pseudonimo di A. M. Barnard. Tra le opere sotto questo pseudonimo, troviamo Un lungo fatale inseguimento d'amore e Passione e tormento. Questi libri ebbero un immediato e notevole successo commerciale perché scritti in uno stile popolare. Louisa produsse storie per bambini in cui l'elemento "moralità" era il dominante e, a esclusione del lavoro semi- autobiografico Work (1873) e l'anonimo romanzo rosa A Modern Mephistopheles (1875) che si pensa sia stato scritto in realtà da Julian Hawthorne, non continuò a scrivere libri per adulti. Il successo letterario arrivò nel 1868 con la pubblicazione della prima parte di Piccole donne (Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy), un racconto semi-autobiografico nel quale descrisse con molto senso dell'umorismo e realismo episodi della sua infanzia con le sorelle a Concord. Il secondo libro, Piccole donne crescono (Good Wives) del 1869, segue la vita delle sorelle March nell'età adulta e nel matrimonio. Piccoli uomini (Little Men) del 1871 narra la vita di Jo alla Plumfield School che fondò assieme al marito Bhaer, episodio narrato alla fine di Good Wives. Il quarto libro, I ragazzi di Jo (Jo's Boys), del 1886 completa la saga della Famiglia March. La gran parte dei volumi pubblicati tra il 1870 e il 1879, An Old Fashioned Girl (1870), Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag (sei volumi, 1871-1879), Eight Cousins e il suo sequel Rose in Bloom (1876), seguono la linea di Piccole donne. Louisa Alcott basò l'eroina "Jo" su se stessa in Piccole donne, ma Jo si sposa alla fine del secondo libro mentre l'autrice non si sposò mai. (info tratte da https://it.wikipedia.org) Qui di seguito, in ordine cronologico crescente, tutti i volumi dell' autrice nelle varie edizioni possedute dalla Biblioteca Panizzi e/o dalle biblioteche decentrate di Rosta, Ospizio, San Pellegrino, Santa Croce. Per ulteriori ricerche bibliografiche consultare il catalogo on-line della biblioteca al seguente indirizzo: www.bibliotecapanizzi.it ALCUNI SUGGERIMENTI PER LA RICERCA A CATALOGO - nel campo “autore” (per trovare libri scritti da Louisa May Alcott) o nel campo “soggetto” (per trovare libri che parlano di Louisa May Alcott) scrivere il cognome e nome dell'autrice in questa forma: Alcott, Louisa May Si ricorda che è possibile fare ricerche in catalogo utilizzando vari accessi tra cui: autore, titolo, parole del titolo, soggetto, parole di soggetto. E’ possibile anche fare ricerche combinate utilizzando contemporaneamente vari parametri. AUTORE TITOLO EDITORE ANNO Alcott, Louisa May Viaggio fantastico di Lilì Treves 1887 Alcott, Louisa May Gli ultimi racconti Treves 1889 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini Carabba 1910 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne Carabba 1912 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini Bemporad & figlio 1919 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne Bemporad & Figli 1921 Alcott, Louisa May Jack e Jill Carabba 1929 Alcott, Louisa May I ragazzi di Jo ; libro di lettura per giovinetti e giovinette Carabba 1932 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne ; parte 2. ; libro per la gioventù Carabba 1932 Alcott, Louisa May Lontano Carabba 1934 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne Bietti 1935 Alcott, Louisa May Le piccole donne crescono Marzocco 1948 Alcott, Louisa May Le piccole donne crescono Fabbri 1954 Alcott, Louisa May Gli otto cugini Marzocco 1955 Alcott, Louisa May Le piccole donne crescono Fabbri 1955 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini Fabbri 1955 Alcott, Louisa May Rosa in fiore S.A.I.E. 1955 Alcott, Louisa May I ragazzi di Jo Fabbri 1956 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini C.E.L.I. 1956 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini Marzocco 1956 Alcott, Louisa May Le piccole donne crescono Fabbri 1957 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne Fabbri 1957 Alcott, Louisa May I ragazzi di Jo Saie 1958 Alcott, Louisa May Otto cugini S.A.I.E. 1958 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini SEI 1959 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne S.A.I.E. 1960 Alcott, Louisa May Rosa in fiore S.A.I.E. 1960 Alcott, Louisa May Le piccole donne crescono S.A.I.E. 1961 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne Bemporad-Marzocco 1961 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini Amz 1961 Alcott, Louisa May I ragazzi di Jo Amz 1962 AUTORE TITOLO EDITORE ANNO Alcott, Louisa May Le piccole donne crescono Amz 1962 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne Mondadori 1962 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini Bemporad ; Marzocco 1962 Alcott, Louisa May Una ragazza fuori moda Amz 1962 Alcott, Louisa May Rossella Mursia 1963 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne crescono Carroccio 1964 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini Salani 1964 Alcott, Louisa May Una ragazza all'antica Carroccio 1964 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini Amz 1965 Alcott, Louisa May I ragazzi di jo Amz 1966 Alcott, Louisa May Le piccole donne crescono Amz 1966 Alcott, Louisa May Le piccole donne crescono Malipiero 1966 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne Amz 1966 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne Dell'Albero 1966 Alcott, Louisa May Piccoli uomini Mursia 1966 Alcott, Louisa May I figli di Jo Bemporad ; Marzocco 1967 Alcott, Louisa May I figli di Jo La sorgente 1967 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne La sorgente 1967 Alcott, Louisa May Le piccole donne crescono Malipiero 1968 Alcott, Louisa May Piccole donne Vallecchi 1968 Alcott, Louisa May Le piccole donne crescono Vallecchi
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    About This Volume Anne K. Phillips & Gregory Eiselein A nine-year-old girl, battling pneumonia, receives a present: an edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women that has been handed down from her grandmother to her mother and now to her. Opening it, she is immediately drawn in as Jo March grumbles, “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents” (11). Why won’t there be presents? Who are these sisters, and why are they calling each other “niminy piminy chits” (12)? She is instantly and forever caught up in the lives and trials and tribulations of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. A second reader comes to Alcott’s masterpiece later in life. A graduate student in American literature, developing an expertise in Civil War-era history and culture, he starts reading Little Women, LQWULJXHG WR ¿QG ¿IWHHQ\HDUROG Jo March announcing, “It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boy’s games, and work, and manners. I can’t get over my disappointment in not being a boy, and LW¶VZRUVHWKDQHYHUQRZIRU,¶PG\LQJWRJRDQG¿JKWZLWKSDSDDQG I can only stay at home and knit like a poky old woman” (12–13). He then discovers that Alcott has written in different genres—not only “children’s” novels, but also fairy tales, short stories, humorous sketches, poems, novels for adults, and sensational thrillers about intrigue, illicit love, drug addiction, revenge, and other dark subjects WKDW ZHUH SXEOLVKHG DQRQ\PRXVO\ RU SVHXGRQ\PRXVO\ 7KLV QHZ perspective on her range and her career makes him very interested in what he sees simmering beneath the surface of Little Women.
  • Louisa May Alcott

    Louisa May Alcott

    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT “Housekeeping ain’t no joke.” —, Part I, 1868 “It takes two flints to make a fire.” —, Part II, 1868 NOTE: May = Maies = Mayes, probably of Portuguese Jewish origin. Louisa May Alcott inherited the dark eyes and hair, and swarthy vivacious Mediterranean look, of this branch of the family through her mother Abba Alcott, who was also dark complected: Anna is an Alcott. Louisa is a true blue May, or rather brown. • Mr. Amos Bronson Alcott born November 29, 1799 as Amos Bronson Alcox in Wolcott, Connecticut HDT WHAT? INDEX LOUISA MAY ALCOTT LOUISA MAY ALCOTT married May 23, 1830 in Boston to Abigail May, daughter of Colonel Joseph May died March 4, 1888 in Boston • Mrs. Abigail (May) “Abba” Alcott born October 8, 1800 in Boston, Massachusetts died November 25, 1877 in Concord, Massachusetts • Miss Anna Bronson Alcott born March 16, 1831 in Germantown, Pennsylvania married May 23, 1860 in Concord to John Bridge Pratt of Concord, Massachusetts died July 17, 1893 in Concord • Miss Louisa May Alcott born November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania died March 6, 1888 in Roxbury, Massachusetts • Miss Elizabeth Sewall Alcott born June 24, 1835 in Boston, Massachusetts died March 14, 1858 in Concord, Massachusetts • Abby May Alcott (Mrs. Ernest Niericker), born July 26, 1840 in Concord, married March 22, 1878 in London, England to Ernest Niericker, died December 29, 1879 in Paris “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Louisa May Alcott HDT WHAT? INDEX LOUISA MAY ALCOTT LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 1684 The 9th edition of the Reverend John Bunyan’s THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS was available for purchase, and in this year, a 2d part would first appear.