Miss Alcott's e-mail : yours for reforms of all kinds : a bio-memoir
"In this biography, Bakke, a consultant in clinical information systems, initiates an email correspondence with her childhood role model, writer Louisa May Alcott. Together they go "far beyond Little Women," discussing, among other things, Alcott's social activism (she supported women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery). Bakke draws stimulating parallels between Alcott's life in the 1860s and her own background as a nurse and 1960s antiwar activist. Through Alcott, Bakke explores such issues as feminism, war, transcendentalism, nursing the sick, writing, and civil rights. Each chapter begins with a letter from Bakke introducing a new topic, then continues with historical and biographical information about Alcott, her contemporaries, and her times. By mixing Alcott's biography with intriguing phases of her own life, Bakke successfully underscores that social struggles continue. Despite a few inaccuracies (e.g., Bryn Mawr College is not in the Ivy League) and the occasional modern colloquialism, this work is a delight."--Library Journal
Correspondence
xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781567923117, 1567923119
64208185