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An Old-Fashioned Girl
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An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott about Polly Milton, a country girl whose simple, unpretentious ways contrast with the fashionable city life of the wealthy family she visits. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century American fiction and Alcott's other works.
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age.
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