Ednah D. Cheney
Auteur van Louisa May Alcott: Life, Letters & Journals
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Miss Alcott strikes me as a good-natured woman who cared about others whilst reserving her right for privacy when she wanted space from the limelight. I feel that anyone who knew her was most fortunate and any readers of her works who got the chance to meet her were privileged.
I seem to be one of few men who appreciate Louisa May Alcott’s literary talents. That said, this work shows that she did have male admires of various ages during her lifetime, which is good to know.
Obviously certain stories are aimed solely at young girls, but there’s a good share of material that should appeal to both sexes of all ages, plus LMA wrote some quality thrillers. Interestingly, she was dismissive of the thrillers herself, though the ones I’ve read to date strike me as excellent.
This volume was constructed by Ednah Cheney, who did a decent though not brilliant job. On the plus side, she fills in gaps that Miss Alcott’s letters and journals omit. But, annoyingly, at times Ms Cheney relays certain information only for the reader to have the same info repeated in Miss Alcott’s own words a few paragraphs later.
But this is only a small gripe with an otherwise impressive attempt to produce something of this nature in a short space of time. It was first published just over a year after Ms Alcott’s sad demise.… (meer)