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Don’t count me in with the Louisa May Alcott fans. I’ve never read or sat through the entire movie version of Little Women, thank...
...course also plans to study Louisa May Alcott herself. The daughter of an impoverished social outcast, Alcott has become as legendary as her books, although often mistakenly so. “Little Women is always represented as a typical American family, but neither the Marches nor the Alcotts were,” says Allgor...
...papers of Gore Vidal will be part of a world-renowned collection that includes the papers of American writers from Henry Adams and Henry James to Sarah Orne Jewett, Louisa May Alcott and John Ashberry,” said William P. Stoneman, Fearrington librarian of Houghton, in a press release...
Other grandparents try to share the turning points of their own lives with their grandchildren. Forty years ago, Dorris Alcott of Timonium, Md., took her first trip abroad, and her exposure to new people and places forever changed the way she viewed the world. This summer she decided to give her granddaughter Sylviane, 16, the same experience. "I felt having this at her age would be far more memorable than any little bit of money I could leave her--plus I'd have her to myself for three weeks!" Sylviane was moved by the experience of traveling with her grandmother...
...American Revolution and the setting of Emerson's Concord Hymn, which celebrated the "shot heard round the world"; or rent bicycles in Lincoln and ride the Revolution's Battle Road trail. Half an hour west by car is Fruitlands, the apple-studded farm where in 1843 Bronson Alcott cultivated the utopian community satirized by Louisa in her book Transcendental Wild Oats...