La petite Rose, ses six tantes et ses sept cousins

Écrit par Louisa May Alcott

Raconté par Emmanuelle Lemée

Rose, orpheline de père et mère, est pâle et chétive. Quel dommage qu'une si affectueuse petite fille soit condamnée à vivre de potions et de pilules, à se morfondre seule, vêtue de noir, dans une grande maison triste.

Condamnée ?

L'oncle Alec voit la situation d'un autre oeil. « Ce qu'il faut à Rose, pense-t-il, c'est une chambre claire, des robes pimpantes, le soleil, le grand air et du mouvement. Elle a justement sept cousins qui sont tout aussi à l'aise à cheval et en bateau qu'à pied. Pourquoi ne pas mettre Rose à leur école ? »

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Editions Jimy
• Date de sortie: 14 mars 2022
• ISBN: 9782382650653

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. Born in Philadelphia to a family of transcendentalists—her parents were friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau—Alcott was raised in Massachusetts. She worked from a young age as a teacher, seamstress, and domestic worker in order to alleviate her family’s difficult financial situation. These experiences helped to guide her as a professional writer, just as her family’s background in education reform, social work, and abolition—their home was a safe house for escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad—aided her development as an early feminist and staunch abolitionist. Her career began as a writer for the Atlantic Monthly in 1860, took a brief pause while she served as a nurse in a Georgetown Hospital for wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War, and truly flourished with the 1868 and 1869 publications of parts one and two of Little Women. The first installment of her acclaimed and immensely popular “March Family Saga” has since become a classic of American literature and has been adapted countless times for the theater, film, and television. Alcott was a prolific writer throughout her lifetime, with dozens of novels, short stories, and novelettes published under her name, as the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, and anonymously.