A review by mjfmjfmjf
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
3.0
Newbery re-read continues. So I've re-read this and still never read anything of Louisa May Alcott - heck I don't think I've even seen any of the movies.
It's a pretty well written biography. Clearly it tries hard to cover the plot of the Louisa's life if not necessarily her inner thoughts. What I don't know is how true it was, and that is the challenge of a non-academic biography. Still it was interesting to see the famous places and names - from Emerson to Thoreau to Hawthorne. And be reminded of the earlier ventures into Utopian communes.
But in the end there was a certain amount of tedium. It's hard to put this high on a list of favored biographies. Perhaps I'll feel differently when I eventually read works by Alcott.
It's a pretty well written biography. Clearly it tries hard to cover the plot of the Louisa's life if not necessarily her inner thoughts. What I don't know is how true it was, and that is the challenge of a non-academic biography. Still it was interesting to see the famous places and names - from Emerson to Thoreau to Hawthorne. And be reminded of the earlier ventures into Utopian communes.
But in the end there was a certain amount of tedium. It's hard to put this high on a list of favored biographies. Perhaps I'll feel differently when I eventually read works by Alcott.