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Title: Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography by Martha Saxton ISBN: 0-374-52460-2 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Louisa may Alcott: A Modern Biography by Martha Saxton
Comment: Having done a good deal of research on Louisa May Alcott, I would call Martha Saxton's work -the soap opera biography. She takes liberties with her source material such as utilizing the freshman english paper style of pulling quotes out of context and with the ever helpful ...uses them to support some National Enquirer type inferences and some pretty out there theories. It makes for a juicy read, but she comes to some highly questionable if not bizarre conclusions. Even the Orchard House, home of the Alcotts, will not sell this book due to the poor scholarship and that should tell you something. Still best biography is Madeleine B. Stern's - thorough, well done and highly recommended over Saxton's questionable attempt.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting times
Comment: The world that Louisa May Alcott lived in was amazing--personal family friends included Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, etc. Unfortunately, this isn't a terrific biography because the author falls into an "overquoting" pattern. Instead of making the story flow and drawing conclusions from the family's extensive journals, Saxton just endlessly quotes passages. It grew tedious. For an excellent biography that doesn't fall into this trap, check out "Lindberg" by A. Scott Berg.
Rating: 5
Summary: A history that keeps your interest
Comment: I grew up on Louisa May Alcott's books-- and wanted to "BE" Jo March. Well, Saxton's biography traces the parts of Jo that are Alcott, and points out the important differences between the fiction Alcott created and the life she lived. The biography points out Alcott's troubled relationship with her family, her need to support them and feel important, and her severe disabilities later in life (the time she was writing most of her work) because of a "Mercury Cure." Saxton takes quite an antagonistic view towards Bronson Alcott, and her sympathies are quite "feminist" in origin-- but all in all, this book will be a great read, and teach you a lot about this incredible, under-rated writer who is a part of our cultural heritage.
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Title: The Journals of Louisa May Alcott by Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy ISBN: 0820319503 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Louisa May Alcott and "Little Women": Biography, Critique, Publications, Poems, Songs, and Contemporary Relevance by Gloria T. Delamar ISBN: 0595187226 Publisher: Backinprint.com Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (Norton Library (Paperback)) by Kathryn Kish Sklar ISBN: 0393008126 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1976 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Louisa May Alcott: A Biography by Madeleine B. Stern ISBN: 1555534171 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Perish the Thought: Intellectual Women in Romantic America, 1830-1860 by Susan Phinney Conrad ISBN: 0195019954 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 July, 1976 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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