Work : a story of experience / Louisa May Alcott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Fiction.

Women.

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 1901.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Before she went on to attain literary acclaim with beloved novels like Little Women, author Louisa May Alcott grew up in an environment of abject poverty, from which she had to fight to extract herself through years of back-breaking labor. This semi-autobiographical tale recounts Alcott's initiation into the world of work and what that meant as a woman in nineteenth-century America.

Contents:

Title; Contents; Chapter I - Christie; Chapter II - Servant; Chapter III - Actress; Chapter IV - Governess; Chapter V - Companion; Chapter VI - Seamstress; Chapter VII - Through the Mist; Chapter VIII - A Cure for Despair; Chapter IX - Mrs. Wilkins's Minister; Chapter X - Beginning Again; Chapter XL - In the Strawberry Bed; Chapter XII - Christie's Gala; Chapter XIII - Waking Up; Chapter XIV - Which?; Chapter XV - Midsummer; Chapter XVI - Mustered In; Chapter XVII - The Colonel; Chapter XVIII - Sunrise; Chapter XIX - Little Heart's-Ease; Chapter XX - At Forty

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77652-392-X

OCLC:

809631683