Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds

Kit Bakke

ISBN 10: 1567923453 / ISBN 13: 9781567923452

Published by David R. Godine, Publisher August 2007, 2007

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Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Binding is fine. Trivial rubbing to the edges and corners.

Seller Inventory # 296759

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds
• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher August 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567923453
• ISBN 13: 9781567923452
• Binding: Paper Back
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Kit Bakke lives in Seattle, where it doesn't rain nearly as much as people think. She is a wife and mother of two daughters. Her resume includes stints as a nurse, copy editor, technology and business consultant, streeet fighter, and revolutionary. Miss Alcott's E-mail is her first book. She is currently trying to make contact with Dorothy Wordsworth.