As an educator, alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. The trilogy ends with alcott s 1886 novel, jos boys, and how they turned out. Alcott, william alexander, in american medical biographies, ed. A new alcott emerges from the annotated little women. Remembered as the author of the timeless classic little women, american author louisa may alcott was one of the nineteenth centurys most pioneering writers.
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