![]() An irrepressible tomboy in her youth, Louisa had “never liked girls or many” other than her three siblings: her older sister, Anna, and her younger sisters, Lizzie and May. Her experience also told her that writing for juveniles “doesn’t pay as well as rubbish.” Still worse, Alcott considered herself wholly unqualified for the task. It was not simply that she disliked the idea, though that was true enough. She had told him she would try, and promptly started the project-and just as promptly set it aside. He had approached Louisa herself with the same idea the previous autumn. ![]() Niles was not taken with the idea what he really wanted was a book to fill a yawning gap in the juvenile market-a smart, lively novel for girls. ![]() Now her father, in an effort to drum up some work for her, suggested to Niles that Louisa could write him a book of fairy stories. ![]() By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.īut as Louisa herself knew, she had not risen to her full artistic potential. ![]()
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