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Miss Alcott's E-mail

Yours for Reforms of All Kinds

Kit Bakke 

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Shouldn't life be more than simply showing up? Is it enough to be part of a family, make another family, earn your living, and then exit stage left? Or should you engage and be engaged in a bit of purposeful shaking and shoving along the way? 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.

Product Details

PublisherDavid R. Godine Publisher
Publish DateAugust 31, 2007
Pages255
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781567923452
Dimensions8.4 X 5.4 X 0.7 inches | 0.7 pounds

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(An) excellent book...the effect is like a wonderful movie shot with a hand-held camera.

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