Work A Story Of Experience

Louisa May Alcott

Alcotts concerns about social justice, womens work, domesticity, and community lie at the heart of this provocative novel.In this story of a womans search for a meaningful life, Alcott moves outside the family setting of her best known works. Originally published in 1872, Work is both an exploration of Alcotts personal conflicts and a social critique, examining womens independence, the moral significance of labor, and the goals to which a woman can aspire. Influenced by Transcendentalism and by the womens rights movement, it affirms the possibility of a feminized utopian society.

Table of contents

• Chapter 1 – Christie “AUNT BETSEY, there's going to be a new Declaration of Independence.”
• Chapter 2 – Servant
• Chapter 3 – Actress
• Chapter 4 – Governess MR. PHILIP FLETCHER.
• CHAPTER—5 – Companion
• CHAPTER—6 – Seamstress
• CHAPTER—7 - Through the Mist
• Chapter 8 - A Cure For Despair LISHA WILKINS.
• Chapter 9 - Mrs. Wilkins's Minister MR. POWER.
• Chapter 10 - Beginning Again MRS. STERLING.
• CHAPTER—11 - In the Strawberry Bed
• CHAPTER—12 - Christie's Gala
• CHAPTER—13 - Waking Up
• Chapter 14 - Which? DAVID.
• CHAPTER—15 – Midsummer
• CHAPTER—16 - Mustered In
• CHAPTER—17 - The Colonel
• Chapter 18 – Sunrise
• CHAPTER—19 - Little Heart's-Ease
• CHAPTER—20 - At Forty