Miss Alcott's E-mail

Yours for Reforms of All Kinds

Kit Bakke (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

255 Seiten

2006
David R. Godine Publisher Inc (Verlag)
978-1-56792-311-7 (ISBN)

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Should life be more than just simply growing up, earning a living, making a family, and then exiting stage left? Or should you be more involved in the world and its goings-on along the way? This book attempts to get the answers to these questions. It refers to the e-mail correspondence of the author and Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women".

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.

Kit Bakke has had many different careers - including as a nurse, a copy-editor, technology consultant, revolutionary (!), and full-time mother. This is her first book.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.10.2007
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 221 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-56792-311-9 / 1567923119
ISBN-13	978-1-56792-311-7 / 9781567923117
Zustand	Neuware