From the LA Times:
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‘Eden’s Outcasts’ by John Matteson
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The book illuminates the loving but often embattled relationship between the author of ‘Little Women’ and her father, renowned transcendentalist Bronson Alcott.
By Martin Rubin
Special to The Times
Aug 24 2007
IT is an inevitable byproduct of the Harry Potter phenomenon that people look to the past for books that have similarly engaged young readers. At the top of most of these lists is Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” (1868), which was an immediate bestseller and has certainly stood the test of time. On both sides of the Atlantic, youthful readers still thrill to the story of the March family in mid-19th century New England; in a recent survey of books that have influenced contemporary writers, it was among those most frequently cited.
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http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-book24aug24,0,3830648.story?coll=cl-books-features