Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds
These are questions that Kit Bakke urgently needs answered. Tired of self-proclaimed gurus and self-help books, she turns to her childhood role model -- Louisa May Alcott -- for direction. She sends an e-mail to Louisa, and is amazed when she receives a reply. Their correspondence becomes a dance of ideas and tales bridging the mid-1800s and the twenty-first century.
But why Louisa? "Her abolitionist zeal, her women's rights advocacy, her hospital work, her crazy commune days, her heartfelt desire to leave the world a better place, her humor and her energy all materialized in front of me," writes Bakke. "Louisa was serious when she signed her letters, 'Yours for reforms of all kinds.' She made her life, she didn't just live it."
When Kit Bakke came of age in the late 1960s, America was going through major social and political turmoil. She and many of her generation elected to pursue radical ways to protest the Vietnam War and civil rights injustices at home, and Bakke joined the notorious Weather Underground. Eventually she left the movement to become a wife, a mother, and a professional nurse, but the persistent questions about the best way to live her life, make her contribution, and find satisfaction remained.
By initiating her extraordinary correspondence with Louisa May Alcott, Kit hopes to "pick up some clues for my friends and myself about how better to live the thirty or so years that might be remaining to us. And besides, we would be giving Louisa a treat that couldn't be beat -- a peek into the future."
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 02, 2007 Type: User Review |
19th Century E-Mails
This book sneaked under my radar but I'm glad that a kind friend, who had seen my review of a book of Alcott scholarship, sent me a copy of the ARC, which may differ slightly from the published version.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 13, 2007 Type: User Review |
Educational!
I thought this was so refreshing! Generations of women think they konw Louisa, as Jo in her novels, but really there was so much more! I appreciate that Ms. Bakke has given us insight into the 19th century struggles, as I read this book at a...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 10, 2007 Type: User Review |
Kit Bakke's Published Mistake
This book is not worth reading. The entire work is an ego stroke for Ms. Bakke, and was written to fuel her fantasy rather than make Alcott accessible to this generation. Bakke uses a fictional rapport and poorly developed premise to give...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 28, 2006 Type: User Review |
A terrific, non-stop read
I read this book in one sitting. It was a non-stop read. What was intriguing to me was the use of the correspondence between the author and Louisa May Alcott which seemed quite legitimate because they share similar backgrounds in different eras....
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 21, 2006 Type: User Review |
MARVELOUS! Much better than I expected!
What is it about those old Concord folks that causes us to revisit them and put them in fictionalized settings? First it was "Mr. Emerson's Wife" (by Amy Belding Brown), and now "Miss Alcott's E-mail." I admit that after hearing about this new...
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