A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May AlcottBy: Louisa May Alcott Collected together for the very first time, witty and wide ranging essays from the celebrated author of Little Women. Louisa May Alcott (18321888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her fathers failed utopian commune, the benefits of an unmarried life, and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to