Louisa May Alcott Her Girlhood Diary Author:Cary Ryan (Editor), Louisa May Alcott 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... more » 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.« less