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Gloria Whelan Fruitlands: Louisa May Alcott Made Perfect.(Book Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
From: The Horn Book Magazine
Date: 20020901
Author:Heppermann, Cristine M.
119 pp. HarperCollins 11/02 ISBN 0-06-623815-3 15.99 g Library edition ISBN 0-06-623816-1 17.89 (Intermediate)
"I am resolved to keep two diaries, one to share with Mother and Father, and this one which shall be my honest thoughts." Thus, Whelan ingeniously imagines both public and private versions of the seven months then-ten-year-old Louisa May Alcott and her family spent at Fruitlands, her father's failed utopic community. In reality, as Whelan notes in her afterword, only nine entries about Fruitlands have been found in Louisa's surviving journals. Yet enough is known ...
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