Larger	Louisa May Alcott: Her Girlhood Diary Author: Cary Ryan (Editor), Louisa May Alcott
	Book Information Publisher: Bridgewater Books Book Type: Paperback Rating: 2 ISBN-13: 9780816731503 - ISBN-10: 0816731500 Publication Date: 6/1/2000 Pages: 56 Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Meet the real Jo March! Louisa May Alcott reveals the true inspiration for her characters and work through the journals she kept as a child.
Little of Alcott's girlhood diary has survived - much of it destroyed by Louisa herself before her death. The diary entries, letters, and poems in this book have been printed exactly as they have come down to the editors, spelling errors, stylistic inconsistencies and oddities of punctuation intact. The quotations from 'Little Women' have been reprinted exactly as they appear in the 1915 Little, Brown edition, which most faithfully reproduces Louisa's own text.