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Orchard House, Concord, MA [Published date: 1993]. Softcover, 38 pages; illustrations, portraits; 22 cm.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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In very good condition. Pictorial card stock covers featuring a sepia photograph of Orchard House, showing mild surface rubbing, faint edge wear, and light handling marks. Binding tight and secure. Interior clean and unmarked. A concise interpretive history of the Alcott family and their home, providing biographical context for Louisa May Alcott's life, her literary work, the family's reformist philosophies, and the domestic environment in which Little Women was created. Illustrated throughout with historical photographs of the Alcott family, Orchard House interiors, furniture, artwork, Thoreau's 1857 property plan, and portraits including Louisa May Alcott (c. 1857), Elizabeth Alcott, Anna Alcott Pratt, and Amos Bronson and Abigail May Alcott. Produced by The Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association with the Orchard House Museum in Concord, Massachusetts. A revised and expanded historical guide to the Alcott family, their home at Orchard House, and the environment in which Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women. Contents: The Alcotts and Orchard House; The Kitchen; The Dining Room; The Parlor; May's Room; Louisa's Room; Parents' Room; Nursery; The Study; Orchard House as a Museum; Alcott Chronology; Alcott Genealogy (as of 1997).