Moods

In 1861 Miss Alcott published her novel 'Moods', the most ambitious work she had yet attempted, and one on which she placed many fond hopes. But although 'Moods' represented all the ideality and poetry of life as it then appeared to the young author, it was not a great success. She had toiled faithfully over its composition, and had wrought into it many of her own girlish dreams, but the heroine w...