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REVEALING ESSAYS BRING ALCOTT TO LIFE

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050908
Author:Lylah M. Alphonse, Globe Staff

Louisa May Alcott is best known for writing classic children's stories, but there was more to the New England author and activist than met the eye. "Alcott in Her Own Time" is a collection of letters and essays written by people who knew her before, during, and after the success of "Little Women," offering a detailed look at her life, her family, and what it was like to live in 19th-century Massachusetts.

Each essay in the collection edited by Daniel Shealy, a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who has published nine books on Alcott begins with a paragraph ...

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