Identifier: beautifulgemsfro00bird (find matches)
Title: Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909, (from old catalog) ed Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863- (from old catalog) joint ed
Subjects: American literature
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., International publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ost at the same time she began tocompose fairy stories, which were contributed to papers ; but these early productionsbrought her little if any compensation, and she continued to devote herself to teach-ing, receiving her own education privately from her father. When I was twenty-one years of age, she wrote many years later to a friend, I took my little earnings($20) and a few clothes, and went out to seek my fortune, though I might have sat stilland been supported by rich friends. All those hard years were teaching me what Iafterwards put into books, and so I made my fortune out of my seeming misfortune.Two years after this brave start Miss Alcotts earliest book, Fairy Tales, waspublished (1855). About the same time her work began to be accepted by the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines of reputation. During the winters of1862 and 63 she volunteered her services and went to Washington and served as anurse in the government hosj^itals, and her experiences here were embodied in a 3^0
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LOUISA M.ALCOTT AUTHOR ofi/mewa^tN SARA JANE LIPPINCOJUr C/?AC£ GJf££A/i¥00O f-TS/- POPULAR WRITERS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. 3Sr series of graphic letters to her mother and sisters. These letters she revised andhad printed in the Boston Commonwealth in the summer of 1803. They wereafterwards issued in a volume entitled Hospital Sketches nnd Camp-Fire Stories.This was her second book, which, together with her magazine articles, opened theway to a splendid career as an author. Being naturally fond of young people, Miss Alcott turned her attention from thistime forward to writing for them. Her distinctive books for the young are entitledMoods (1864); Morning Glories (1867); Little Women (1868), whichwasher first decided success; An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869); Little Men(1871); Work (1873); Eight Cousins (1875), and its sequel, Rose inBloom (1877), which perhaps ranks first among her books ; Under the Lilacs(1878) ; Jack and Jill (1880), and Lulus Library (1885). Besides the

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