Louisa May Alcott is My Passion
Begun in 2010, this blog offers analysis and reflection by Susan Bailey on the life, works and legacy of Louisa May Alcott and her family. Susan is an active member and supporter of the Louisa May Alcott Society, the Fruitlands Museum and Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House.
This review is way overdue! The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, the debut novel of Kelly O'Connor McNees, was the book that began my current reading binge last May. My husband, bless his heart, found this book and bought it for me and I will always be grateful. The Lost Summer of Louisa May …
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I’m here at Barnes and Noble, killing time before I have to attend a work event (some of us are representing our real estate firm, Rutledge Properties (in Wellesley, MA), in a town-wide spelling bee – goodness, I hope we last at least one round! ). I figured I would see if Susan Cheever’s book, …
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Susan Cheever is releasing her latest book, a biography on Louisa called Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography. You can find out more about this new book at her website. She is going to be making personal appearances in the New York and New England area ( I plan to be there on November 13 …
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Be sure and check out all the new books I added to My Growing Library after I went on a shopping spree! No less than 11 new books (almost all at bargain prices, what fun!). I've put an * next to books I've either read or are in the middle of reading. Slow going but …
Here's our winner, Mia, with her copy of Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriett Reisen. Her kitten, Pupi, is reading with her. 🙂 Here's what she said about it: "I got the book yesterday, some, let's see 28 hours ago. I love it! Started reading from the very first page and …
In Chapter 34, "A Friend," Jo makes not one but two choices. One is exceedingly difficult, the other flows from the first. The choice most commented upon is her decision to give up writing sensational thrillers. Modern feminist critics look to this chapter as a death of sort, of Jo's independent self (see Little Women …
You people are good! I barely had the question up an hour when I got a correct response. Our winner of Harriet Reisen's Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women is Mia, also known as Emilija Knezevic and she is from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Truly, Louisa May Alcott's fame and influence reach around the …
Harriet Reisen's excellent biography, Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women, has just been released in paperback and I have a free copy to give away! This is an wonderful book and even if you've read scores of other bios on Louisa and her family, you will learn something new here. Reisen's book gave …
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Yesterday I saw comments from a new reader, Jillian, where she posted a link to her amazing reflection on Little Women. This is a must read - see it on her blog. She's set a goal of reading 250 great works of literature. Best of luck with that, Jillian: I'll follow your progress. 🙂 I can't …
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I had been reading Little Women in bits and pieces over the summer but now I am fully immersing myself in it. Although I read some of it for school many years ago, I never finished it nor appreciated it. I actually decided to start it again when I began reading Kelly O'Connor McNees' book, …
Louisa May Alcott is My Passion 