Identifier: talksaboutauthor00bloo (find matches)
Title: Talks about authors and their work
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bloor, Ella Reeve, 1862-1951
Subjects: Authors, American Authors
Publisher: Chicago : A. Flanagan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rth Land. THE STORY OF LOUISA ALCOTT. Boru November 29, 1832; Died, 1888. All boys and girls love the memory of LouisaAlcott, for she has given them so many realfriends. They feel as well acquainted with JosBoys, Little Men and Little Women as ifthey had been brought up with Jo, Meg, Amy,Beth and Teddy; it seems as if they musthave gone to Plumfield to school to dear oldProfessor Bhaer and Mrs. Jo. Of all the boys and girls Miss Alcott haswritten about, we feel that in Jos story we havethe life story of Louisa Alcott herself. Jo is thebest loved of all by the boys as well as the girls.When we read her life as told in her journalsand letters, we find that things really did happento Louisa Alcott as they did to Jo. The dear Marmee was her own mother,with the bright loving spirit, always ready toshare the little they had to eat or wear withthose who came to her with their troubles. Her motto was Hope and keep busy. Itwas Marmee who inspired Louisa to write herpoems and her stories. (163)
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LOUISA M. ALCOTT. TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. 165 When she was only a little girl, one coldmorning the children found a little half-starvedbird. After they had fed and warmed it, Louisawrote a little poem about it. Welcome, welcome, little stranger;Fear no harm and fear no danger;We are glad to see you here,For you sing Sweet Spring is near. There was another verse or two and hermother was so pleased she told her she mightgrow up a Shakespeare. This so fired herambition that she kept on waiting. In her jour-nal she writes: I continued to write poems up-on dead butterflies, lost kittens, the babys eyesand other simple subjects, till the story-tellingmania set in, and after frightening my sistersout of their wits by awful tales whispered in bed,I began to write down these histories of giants,ogres, dauntless girls and magic transformations,till we had a library of small paper-covered vol-umes, illustrated by the author. The Alcotts were very poor, but there wasalways sunshine in the house. The

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