Children’s Classic Read 2022 February
The first six chapters of the novel were serialised in the Merry’s Museum magazine between July and August 1869. Alcott added another thirteen chapters before publishing the novel. The book revolves around Polly Milton, the old-fashioned girl of the title, who visits the wealthy family of her friend Fanny Shaw in the city and is overwhelmed by their fashionable life they lead and disturbed to see how the family members fail to understand one another and demonstrate little affection. She is largely content to remain on the fringes of their social life but exerts a powerful influence over their emotional lives and family relations.
Louisa May Alcott, (born November 29, 1832, Germantown, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died March 6, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts), American author known for her children’s books, especially the classic Little Women (1868–69). An abolitionist and a feminist, Alcott was active in reform movements such as temperance and women’s suffrage throughout her life. Alcott never married.
I’m looking forward to this read.
This Alcott is a favorite of many readers I know,
more so than Little Women.
This also has, according to some sewing friends of mine, passages describing reworking of dresses.
This seems as an appropriate February read.
Another form of love.
