Wuthering
Expectations

Now I am going to look at the highlights of the Winter 2015 issue of The Hudson Review , my favorite literary journal. For a long time, T...

Ow, my eyes.  You can see the 1863 “ Birth of Venus ” by Alexandre Cabanel in the flesh – or in the marzipan (see the Zola quotation at the ...

So, sitting at the dear little piano, Beth softly touched the keys, and in the sweet voice they had never thought to hear again, sang to her...

There are other ways to read Little Women .  As a temperance tract, for example.  Take a look at Chapter 25, “The First Wedding,” which is r...

Chapter 9 of Little Women , “Meg Goes to Vanity Fair,” that is where I want to spend my time today.  Bunyan describes Vanity Fair as the pla...

Structure.  I thought the most interesting thing in Little Women – I mean in One – was the layer of structures Louisa May Alcott used to c...

Some groundwork for Louisa May Alcott’s   Little Women .  It is actually or at least once was two books, Little Women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth and...

Although Louisa May Alcott was only an army nurse for a month, she had the good luck to arrive just in time to treat the mass of casualties ...

Little Women and its sequel Good Wives are on the horizon.  I am in theory reading along with Dolce Bellezza , as are, I hope, many people...