Tag: Louisa May Alcott
Guest post by Michael C. C. Adams To lighten the gloomy Civil War holiday season, printmakers and newspaper editors, such as Currier & Ives and Harper’s Weekly in the North, produced pictures emanating good cheer. Well-clad soldiers were shown clustered around wood fires in cosy log huts with tent roofs and barrel chimneys, sharing food…
Guest post by Beverly Lyon Clark When I detoured from another project to work on The Afterlife of “Little Women”, I didn’t realize how long it would take—or how much fun I’d have. (Thank you, Louisa May Alcott—and happy almost-birthday!) It’s been a treasure hunt, first of all. Consider the lost 1919 film version of the…
Guest post by Beverly Lyon Clark When I detoured from another project to work on The Afterlife of “Little Women”, I didn’t realize how long it would take—or how much fun I’d have. (Thank you, Louisa May Alcott—and happy almost-birthday!) It’s been a treasure hunt, first of all. Consider the lost 1919 film version of the…