Category: Louisa May Alcott
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I can’t remember when I first read Little Women. It was just there. Part of my childhood. An old copy on a bookshelf and my mum didn’t know where it came from either. It vanished as I grew up and, as an army child and on the move, disappeared along with my entire collection of…
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A lovely new edition of Black Beauty from OUP World's Classics dropped through my letterbox last week and instant nostalgia set in as I opened it up and started to read. I remember this book so well from my childhood and, along with Beth dying in Good Wives, the death of Ginger in Black Beauty…
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Not much serious reading done in the last couple of weeks because of new grandchild and trips backwards and forwards to London but am trying to get back on track at the moment with my reading. I hope all publishers who are kind enough to send me books will bear with me as my brain…
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A few years back I was asked by an early visitor to Random, who noted that I love Victorian Literature, if I could name my favourite books from that genre. I have recently been asked the same question and so I have had a rethink and while I was jotting notes checked my earlier post…
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I have loved the books of Louisa May Alcott all my reading life and had the luck and joy to visit Orchard House in Concord some years ago and posted about it here. To my utter dismay I lost my film with all my photos (this was pre-digital) and was so upset and angry. Nothing…