The Island of Doves suffers heavily from predictability. While one should never trivialize spousal abuse or a woman’s flight from an abusive husband, it appears as if all such stories follow certain patterns. The wife fakes her own death and flees, with or without the help of others. The husband can...
If you enjoy Louisa May Alcott's books or the history surrounding her life, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott is a must read.
Gave up on the audiobook....
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2010/06/review-lost-summer-of-louisa-may-alcott.html
After the Civil War, thousands of unmarried women were left to fend for themselves, thanks to a dearth of eligible men, in a society that still did not foster that type of independence. Enter Clara, a woman reeling from her own loss, who hits upon a way to help out a small town in Nebraska and earn ...
I borrowed this book from the library, but now I wish I had bought it, I wanted to mark it up so bad. If you're at all a fan of Little Women, you will want to read this novel. The author did a great job of mixing fact and fiction. I want to believe that this is how Miss Alcott spent the summer of 18...
I can't.....TAKE IT ANYMORE!! Make it stop mommy....PLEASE!
Excellent book!
While Louisa May Alcott's most famous work, Little Women, is closely based on her own family, it's not memoir, and there are portions of the author's life that aren't well-documented or deeply explored in the various biographies. Kelly O'Connor McNees uses one of those gaps as the stage for her hist...