Michael Garland: Little Women

Artist: Michael Garland
1952 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1993
Image Size: 12 by 14 inches
Overall Size: 15 by 17 inches
Medium: Oil on Cold Press Illustration Board

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on November 29,1832, Louisa May Alcott spent the majority of her life in the Massachusetts towns of Boston and Concord. Most of her early education was provided by her father, Bronson Alcott, a well-known educator and philosopher of the time. She later received instruction and guidance from literary greats and family friends Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Her first book was a collection of tales entitled Flower Fables, which was written in 1854 for Emerson's daughter Ellen. Alcott served as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War but contracted typhoid and was sent home. She never fully recovered. The letters she wrote to her family during that time were published in book form as Hospital Sketches in 1863, bringing her an initial taste of fame. One year later her first novel, Moods, appeared. But Alcott's true success came in 1868 with the publication of Little Women. A semiautobiographical account of her childhood, Little Women tells the story of the Marches, a family of modest means living in a small 19th-century New England town. The story centers on the tumultuous teenage years of the four March daughters, Jo, Amy, Beth and Meg. Selling more than 60,000 copies in its first year, the book brought Alcott immediate fame and fortune. Highly popular among young people, Little Women remains in print and in demand to this very day.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the U.S. 29¢ Little Women stamp issued October 23, 1993.

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