{"id":9246,"date":"2018-04-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9246"},"modified":"2018-03-29T08:43:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:43:25","slug":"a-is-for-alcott-in-the-revelation-of-louisa-may-by-michaela-maccoll-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9246","title":{"rendered":"A is for Alcott, in The Revelation of Louisa May, by Michaela MacColl (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookWhy does she have to run the household instead of writing?
\nAnd keep their Underground Railroad<\/a> stop functioning (and secret)?
\nAnd discern a suitor’s true nature without her mother’s guidance?<\/p>\n

Yes, this is that Louisa May<\/a>, author of Little Women<\/em> and Little Men<\/em>, as a teen tasked with keeping house for her sisters and philosopher father during the summer when her mother worked away from home to support the family, rather than writing.<\/p>\n

MacColl’s historical fiction about literary women, like Emily Dickinson in Nobody’s Secret<\/em> (my recommendation here<\/a>), is worth adding to your list.<\/p>\n

Which author or poet would you like to read more about?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0The Revelation of Louisa May: a Novel of Intrigue and Romance \/ Michaela MacColl. Chronicle Books, 2015. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why does she have to run the household instead of writing? And keep their Underground Railroad stop functioning (and secret)? And discern a suitor’s true nature without her mother’s guidance? Yes, this is that Louisa May, author of Little Women and Little Men, as a teen tasked with keeping house for her sisters and philosopher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[10,163,22,11,20,5,16,18,40,44,43,214,49,184,15,21,57,73,35,8,61],"class_list":["post-9246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-historical","tag-a2z","tag-african-american","tag-behavior","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-massachusetts","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-us-author","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Revelation-Louisa-May.jpg?fit=350%2C485&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9246"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9316,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246\/revisions\/9316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}