Publisher's Synopsis
An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott first published in 1869. The first six chapters of the novel were serialised in the Merry's Museum magazine between July and August 1869. Alcott added another thirteen chapters before publishing the novel. The book revolves around Polly Milton, the old-fashioned girl of the title, who visits the wealthy family of her friend Fanny Shaw in the city and is overwhelmed by their fashionable life they lead and disturbed to see how the family members fail to understand one another and demonstrate little affection. She is largely content to remain on the fringes of their social life but exerts a powerful influence over their emotional lives and family relations.Louisa may alcott others work as follow Little MenLittle WomenThe Inheritance (1849, unpublished until 1997)Moods (1865, revised 1882)The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867)An Old Fashioned Girl (1870)Will's Wonder Book (1870)Work: A Story of Experience (1873)Beginning Again, Being a Continuation of Work (1875)Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875)Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to Eight Cousins (1876)Under the Lilacs (1878)Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)Proverb Stories (1882)
