CSPAN2 Orchard House And Louisa May Alcott July 15, 2017
Women. Here we are in concorde, massachusetts, where the redcoats marched into the northbridge on april 19, 1775, starting the american revolution. This house, eventually much later than that becomes the home of Amos Bronson Alcott and his family. One of the daughters, Louisa May Alcott, in this house, writes a book the changes a lot of the way people think about children, the way they think about young women and mature women. It was a very progressive book for its day and in many ways today it still remains this because it is just a simple true to life story of four young women and their pare...
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