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Our Reading Guide for Louisa May Alcott by Harriet Reisen includes Book Club Discussion Questions, Book Reviews, Plot Summary-Synopsis and Author Bio.
Dec 28, 2009 · Let's get one thing straight about Louisa May Alcott: "She's not the little woman you thought she was, and her life was no children's book," says Alcott scholar Harriet Reisen.
A: Louisa’s father, Bronson Alcott, was a pioneering educator – he invented recess! – but after he was accused of teaching about sex, and admitted a black girl student (twenty-five years before the abolition of slavery), parents took all his other students out.
A former fellow in screenwriting at the American Film Institute, Reisen has written dramatic and historical documentary scripts for PBS and HBO, and radio commentary for Morning Edition and Marketplace.
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Middle School Students have an opportunity to attend the fall dance. The fall dance is on October 23 from 6:00-8:00pm. Students must have an 85% Kickboard positivity rating to be invited to attend. The cost is $2 and paid at the door.
Feb 24, 2010 · Harriet Reisen’s Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (A John MacRae Book/Henry Holt and Company) fills in the rest of the picture, describing a life more complicated, unconventional and tragic than Alcott’s fans might have imagined.”
Oct 27, 2009 · Harriet Reisen’s interest in Louisa May Alcott dates to her marathon reading of Alcott’s eight children’s novels during a rainy spell one childhood summer. Over the past twenty years,...
