Readers of "Little Women" and the other Alcott books in which Miss Alcott revealed in part her own life will welcome the complete story of her eventful career in this new biography. Writing primarily for young people, Miss Meigs, herself beloved as the author of books for boys and girls, tells in her delightful style of "Invincible Louisa's" dauntless battle for achievement.

Here we have vivid descriptions of Louisa acting in her own play in the barn behind the Concord home of the "haphazard" Alcotts. We see Louisa, who was taught by her father, engaged in the uncongenial task of teaching small children, writing little flower stories for the benefit of Emerson's daughter, nursing Union soldiers in a Georgetown hospital until she became seriously ill, visiting Europe as companian to an invalid girl, meeting "Laurie", the Polish boy, in Switzerland. Then comes the writing of "Little Women", in an endeavor to help support the family, and the success of the book, which brought her fame and made her universally beloved.

From the dust jacket