A Strange Life : Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May Alcott (Notting Hill Editions)

A Strange Life : Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May Alcott (Notting Hill Editions)New Hardback Louisa May Alcott is best known as the author of Little Women. But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her fathers failed utopian commune, life as a Civil War nurse and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her familys poverty. Blending gentle satire with reportage and emotive biography, A Strange Life edited by Liz Rosenberg and with a preface by Jane Smiley shows

Separate and connected

Setting forth a chronological narrative

a place to fight for

even the experts can't be right all the time

At times exhilarated

He has made a major contribution to the debate about the performance of the British Army on the Western Front

Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men

Beautifully written and based on a lifetime of scholarship

strangers can become like family and family like strangers

If you are even vaguely interested in strange goings-on in the dark

In this timely and exciting contribution to a wider conversation about our relationship with the natural world

illustrated by the author