#Abigail may alcott

[kerouacs]

Some headcanon Nyotalia names I'd like to share plus some of my reasoning behind them, because why not?

America: Eleanor Louisa Adams; it's primarily a reference to Eleanor Roosevelt (but also Ellie makes a cute nickname for her)-- there's some debate over whether it's another form of Helen or not, but if it is I think the 'bright, shining' meaning would suit her a'la 'shining city upon a hill' vibes! Her middle name Louisa is a reference to Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, and I don't think I need to explain the Abigail Adams reference with her surname.

England: Emma Guinevere Hargrave; I wanted to give her a name in reference to literature, so why not draw inspiration from Jane Austen's Emma herself? The Guinevere is in contrast to 'Arthur', and basically a name drawn from Arthurian legends because yes; Hargrave means 'grey thicket/grove', and it brings to mind the idea of gray skies over London.

Canada: Sarah Maud Cartier; Sarah is biblical like 'Matthew' is, and I mostly chose it because it sounds homey and I like to think she has a more homey personality compared to Matthew's weirder vibes, but also it's a reference to the poet Sarah Anne Curzon; Maud meanwhile is from from Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables. Evidently, I like my literature names.

Russia: Svetlana Rurikovna Akhmatova; Svetlana's an Orthodox Slavic name, but also a reference to Vasily Zhukovsky's ballad 'Svetlana'; Rurikovna is a patronymic that pays homage to Rurik, the founder of Novgorod and whom Russian history likes to trace far back when it comes to the founding of the nation (though there's a lot of contentious debate on that which I won't get into, so feel free to substitute with your own patronymic headcanons); Akhmatova is a reference to 20th century poet Anna Akhmatova.

Germany: Ava Schelling; Ava sounds simple and practical, which is something I think that suits her, but also a reference to Ava of Melk.

Prussia: Dorothea Ritter; Dorothea means 'God's gift' which I feel tells a lot about her already, but it's also a reference to the princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia; Ritter means 'rider/knight' and both give names of power, and overall together they make a very powerful name that suits her somehow I mean--

North Italy: Sofia Bandettini; Sofia means 'wisdom' which is a reference to how a lot of cities during the Renaissance were in the north (and specifically I'm thinking of Florence, because while I like to think Veneto is Feliciano's heart, in Nyotalia North Italy's heart is Tuscany); Bandettini comes from Teresa Bandettini, who was a famous performer during her time.

South Italy: Fiammetta Bandettini; Fiammetta is the nickname of Maria d'Aquino, a Neapolitan noblewoman, but the name also means 'little flame' which is also a reference to the south's prevalence of volcanoes in the south like Mount Etna; Bandettini is from her sister ofc, which I think she was forced to change her surname to during Risorgimento, but prior to that it was Sciara, which is a Sicilian surname.

#hetalia #nyotalia #hws america #nyo america #aph england #nyo england #aph canada #nyo canada #aph russia #nyo russia #aph germany #nyo germany #aph prussia #nyo prussia #aph north italy #nyo north italy #aph south italy #nyo south italy

[caddyxjellyby]

Differences between Little Women and real life

Bronson Alcott, unlike Mr. March, was not a minister and was not from a rich family.

Louisa May Alcott never had a manuscript burned – the description of Jo's manuscript, “half a dozen little fairy tales,” matches Flower Fables, LMA's first published book.

In a journal entry LMA wrote that she was $40 in debt and could pay it by selling her hair, but there is no following entry mentioning whether or not she did. And she had all her hair cut off when she had typhoid while nursing during the American Civil War.

Abigail May Alcott didn't fall through ice and nearly drown, although according to Julian Hawthorne's autobiography she once fell out of a boat they were in.

#this isn't exhaustive it's just a few things that came to mind #little women #louisa may alcott

[iwanthermidnightz]

What does Alcott even mean? I tried google and all I could find was some pretty 👯interesting👯 facts about a writer called Louisa May Alcott. Facts included:

- and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest; Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest

- Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life.

-As a child, she was a tomboy who preferred boys’ games.

This all might be totally unrelated but I’m not English/American and couldn’t find a explanation as to what Alcott means so I stumbled upon this instead

In this case, I think it’s a place rather than a persons last name. The Alcott. A physical or metaphorical place where a couple goes to relieve the glory days and to try to get that feeling back.

Reminds me of the cabin in cardigan/willow. Ivys house of stone. Cornelia Street. Big Sur. I could be going off on a completely wrong idea, so it will be interesting to see the lyrics when they come out. Can’t wait for this one! Any other ideas?

[princesssarisa]

We have shared our thoughts on Friedrich's moralistic influences on Jo's writing. Something that a lot of people seem to miss is that Jo herself also has very high morals (her father was a pastor after all). She criticises Laurie when he buys expensive gloves and throws his money away (Jo calls him dandy).

Jo feels uncomfortable when the editor at the Weekly Volcano wants Jo to cut all the morals, from her story. Jo agrees to do that, but she doesn't agree with the editor and the narrator even says that the editor is wrong, the public enjoys stories with morals as well.

I was wondering, what do you think are Jo's moralistic influences on Friedrich? or good influences in general

One of my favourite examples of this is that in the novel Jo at times criticises Laurie for smoking cigars, but when Fritz smokes his pipe, Jo doesn't say anything (that we know of).

Yet, in Little Men, Fritz quit smoking and he quit because he wanted to be a good example to the children at Plumfield, but I like to think that he quit also because he knew that Jo dislikes it.

That makes me love them even more as a couple.

A fun thing that I found out, is Louisa May Alcott's mother Abigail, had a habit to invite young men to their home to spend evenings so that they wouldn't end up smoking, drinking, women and playing pool and other "scandalous" things that went on back then.

It sounds very much like the way Jo wants to raise her boys. Louisa was the same way. She used her writings to morally guide young men (who also read her books).

This is all good to remember.

#little women #friedrich bhaer #jo march

[veronicaleighauthor]

Before “Little Women”

Louisa May Alcott is best known as the author of the American classic “Little Women,” and has become synonymous with her literary counterpart, Jo March. While the Alcott family and their experiences inspired the events of the book, we must remember it is fiction and Louisa was her own person. She was raised by the idealistic Bronson Alcott and practical Abigail May. The Alcott’s were often in debt, starving and moving from place to place, yet their unorthodox Transcendental beliefs encouraged them to continually sacrifice for others. It was not uncommon for them to ration their food and give what they had to spare to the less fortunate. The Transcendentalists supported the abolition of slavery before it was popular; Bronson welcomed an African American girl into his classroom and was later forced to close down his school for such a progressive act. The Alcott family even had connections to the Underground Railroad.

            When the Civil War began, the Alcott’s did their part. They rolled bandages, donated their time and meager funds. For Louisa that was not enough. A woman of action, she was not satisfied with sitting on the sidelines and she was not faint of heart. For years she struggled alongside her family, striving for something more. At age fifteen she made a vow: “I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family. I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!” She had always had a knack for writing and had begun to make a small name for herself writing blood and thunder tales. Louisa had become her family’s breadwinner.

Dorothea Dix and her band of nurses broke barriers. Prior to the Civil War, it was unthinkable for a lady to attend to wounded and ailing men. Early on in the war, only married women were allowed to participate. By 1862, the Union was so desperate for volunteers, that they accepted unmarried ladies. When Louisa heard of this, she volunteered and headed to Washington. Bronson felt as though he were “sending his only son to war.” It was the only acceptable way Louisa could serve her country, without actually donning on a uniform and fighting. This was one of the many times she lamented being born a girl instead of a boy.

            On her arrival at the hospital, Louisa’s eyes were open to the results of war. She supported the Union wholeheartedly and believed that slavery was a great evil. However, she realized that there was no glory in the suffering of men who shed their blood. Men of all ages and backgrounds were coming straight from the battlefield. They were mangled, ill, and many dying. The ones that survived, their broken bodies and spirits had to be repaired. Louisa washed them, administered medication, assisted in surgeries and amputations, read to them and helped them write letters home to their families.

She connected with one Union soldier; a Virginian blacksmith named John. She was drawn to his strength and quiet grace. As he slipped away, she remained by his side, holding his hand. Withdrawing from him, the white marks of his fingers were still pressed into her skin. He also left a lasting impression on her heart. While she worked there, she sent letters home detailing her experiences. Her parents saved and cherished her correspondence.

            Typhus, typhoid fever, cholera, and pneumonia struck down many of the patients…and the hospital staff. Louisa was in her sixth week of nursing when she contracted typhoid fever and struggled between life and death. Her long, dark hair –which she considered her one beauty- was shorn off to relieve her of her fever. The doctors treated her with mercury, in the form of calomel. Calomel was deemed unsafe, but many physicians still used it, which would result in mercury poisoning. When he heard she was deathly ill, her father Bronson escorted her from the hospital and brought her back home, where it took many months for her to recuperate. Prior to her service as a nurse, Louisa’s health had been robust. But now it was fragile and remained so for the remainder of her life. The mercury would have eventually left her system; however it is suspected that her illness and treatment could have let to her suffering from the auto-immune disease, Lupus.

When Louisa recovered enough from typhoid fever, she looked over the letters she had sent home. After some editing, she submitted them to a gazette. Excerpts of her work, “Hospital Sketches,” appeared in print throughout the east coast. In 1863, it was published in book form. A slim volume, it was a costly 50 cents and though the royalties she received did not lift her or her family out of poverty, it was a literary success. She received attention and made important connections, paving the way for her to become a famous author.

            Louisa made her youthful vow partly come true. By 1868, through “Little Women,” she was famous and rich. Her family never had to worry about money again. Yet all of that came with a heavy price. The public always wanted another book, her health and emotional state were delicate and she never wrote the kind of fiction that she had dreamt of writing.

But she was forever proud of her service to her country and at that time in history, she was considered a war veteran.  

#louisa may alcott #little women #hospital sketches #civil war #american history #women writers

[haggishlyhagging]

But, as we have seen, suffrage was only one small aspect of what the W.R.M. was all about. A hundred years of brilliant personalities and important events have also been erased from American history. The women orators who fought off mobs, in the days when women were not allowed to speak in public, to attack Family, Church, and State, who traveled on poor railways to cow towns of the West to talk to small groups of socially starved women, were quite a bit more dramatic than the Scarlett O' Haras and Harriet Beecher Stowes and all the Little Women who have come down to us. Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, freed slaves who went back time and again, with huge prices on their heads, to free other slaves on their own plantations, were more effective politically than the ill-fated John Brown. But most people today have never even heard of Myrtilla Miner, Prudence Crandall, Abigail Scott Duniway, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Ernestine Rose, the Claflin sisters, Crystal Eastman, Clara Lemlich, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Doris Stevens, Anne Martin. And this ignorance is nothing compared to ignorance of the lives of women of the stature of Margaret Fuller, Fanny Wright, the Grimké sisters, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Stanton Blatch, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Paul.

And yet we know about Louisa May Alcott, Clara Barton, and Florence Nightingale, just as we know about, rather than Nat Turner, the triumph of Ralph Bunche, or George Washington Carver and the peanut. The omission of vital characters from standard versions of American history in favor of such goody-good models cannot be tossed off. Just as it would be dangerous to inspire still-oppressed black children with admiration for the Nat Turners of their history, so it is with the W.R.M.: The suspicious blanks in our history books concerning feminism—or else the confusion of the whole W.R.M. with the (conservative) suffrage movement or the reformist women's groups of the Progressive Era—is no accident.

It is part of a backlash we are still undergoing in reaction to the first feminist struggle. The few strong models allowed girls growing up in the fifty-year silence have been carefully chosen ones, women like Eleanor Roosevelt, of the altruistic feminine tradition, as opposed to the healthily selfish giants of the radical feminist rebellion. This cultural backlash was to be expected. Men of those days grasped immediately the true nature of a feminist movement, recognizing it as a serious threat to their open and unashamed power over woman. They may have been forced to buy off the women's movement with confusing surface reforms—a correction of the most blatant inequalities on the books, a few changes of dress, sex, style ("you've come a long way, baby"), all of which coincidentally benefited men. But the power stayed in their hands.

-Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

#shulamith firestone #feminist history #radical feminism #female oppression #male power #usa history #USA feminism #women’s rights movement

[throwawaytherapist]

Here it is ladies! A list of female biographies! Highly anticipated by nobody but myself! This took a long time, so I hope it might be enjoyable to at least some people. I'll add to this whenever I feel like it. A few things before I begin:

1. The list is (roughly) organized alphabetically by the subjects last name.

2. The subjects occupation (if they had one) will be labeled with a corresponding symbol (i.e. painter = 🎨, writer =✏️, and so on and so forth). Books about same sex attracted women (lesbian or bi women) and women of color are labeled. Occupations that cannot be easily represented by symbols will simply be stated.

3. Biographies written or co-written by men will have with 🧔 after their names.

4. The subjects full birth name will be in brackets after the title.

5. If you're curious about a book and want more information or content warnings, please message me. I'll help as best I can.

•Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey [Abigail Adams] (Activist)

•Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra [Marian Hooper Adams]

•Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas [Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams]

•Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight [Jane Addams] (Activist, SSA)

•Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet by Roberta Reeder [Anna Andreyevna Gorenko] (✏️)

•Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen [Louisa May Alcott] (Activist, SSA,✏️)

•Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan [Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva] (✏️)

•Marian Anderson, A Singers Journey by Allen Keiler 🧔 [Marian Anderson] (WOC, Activist, 🎙)

•The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling [Mary Anning] (🦕)

•Susan B. Anthony: A Biography by Kathleen Barry [Susan B. Anthony] (Activist, SSA)

•Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser [Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne] (👑)

•Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade [Eleanor of Aquitaine] (👑)

•Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England by Theresa Earenfight [Catherine of Aragon] ( 👑)

•Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise by Lucinda Hawksley [Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll] (👑)

•Everything She Touched: Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase [Ruth Aiko Asawa] (WOC, Sculptor)

•Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields [Jane Austen] (✏️)

•Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain by Silvia Z. Mitchell [Mariana of Austria] (👑)

•The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria by Brigette Hamann [Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary] (👑)

•Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Cosmic Art of Lucille Ball by Stefan Kanfer 🧔 [Lucille Désirée Ball] (🎥)

•Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara by Eve Golden [Theodosia Burr Goodman, "Theda Bara"] (📽)

•Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez [Natalie Clifford Barney] (SSA, ✏️)

•Josephine: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker 🧔 [Freda Josephine McDonald Baker] (WOC, SSA, Dancer, 📽)

•A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and The Civil War by Stephan B. Oates 🧔 [Clarissa Harlowe Barton] (🩺)

•Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory by Kimberly L. Craft [Countess Erzsébet Báthory de Ecsed] (Serial Killer)

•Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography by Deirdre Bair [Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir] (Activist, ✏️)

•The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd [Aphra Behn] (✏️)

•Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Janet Wallach [Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell] (Archaeologist)

•Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding [Vanessa Stephen Bell] (🎨)

•Ingrid Bergman by Grace May Carter [Ingrid Bergman] (🎥)

•Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World's First Superstar by Catherine Reef [Henriette-Rosine Bernard, "Sarah Bernhardt"] (🎭)

•Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Besant [Annie Wood Besant] (Activist, ✏️)

•Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto [Benazir Bhutto] (WOC, Prime Minister)

•Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks [Saint Hildegard] (Abbess, Musician)

•Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven [Ada Delutuk Blackjack] (WOC, Explorer)

•The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura [Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell] (🩺)

•Lady Icarus: Balloonomania and the Brief, Bold Life of Sophie Blanchard by Deborah Noyes [Marie Madeleine-Sophie Armant Blanchard] (🎈)

•Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth by Marion Meade [Helena Petrovna von Hahn Blavatsky] (✏️)

•Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger [Elizabeth Jane Cochran Seaman, "Nellie Bly"] (Activist, Reporter)

•Anne Boleyn by Norah Lofts [Anne Boleyn] (👑)

•Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte by Kate Williams [Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie Bonaparte] (👑)

•The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson [Lizzie Andrew Borden] (🪓)

•Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford [Lucrezia Borgia] (Governor)

•Boudica by Vanessa Collingridge [Boudica] (👑, 🗡)

•Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White [Margaret Bourke-White] (📷)

•Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild by David Stenn 🧔[Clara Gordan Bow] (📽)

•The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien's Inspiration by Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays 🧔 [Edith Mary Bratt Tolkien]

•The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert [Eva Anna Paula Braun Hitler] (📷)

•Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Lady Anne Somerset [Anne, Queen of Great Britain] (👑)

•Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting by Elizabeth Whitley Roberson [Georgia Ann Thompson Broadwick] (🪂)

•The Brontë Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne by Catherine Reef [Charlotte Brontë, Emily Jane Brontë, Anne Brontë] (✏️)

•Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth by Kristen Iversen [Margaret Tobin Brown] (Socialite)

•The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend by Jeff Leen 🧔 [Mildred Burke] (Wrestler)

•Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden by Gretchen Gerzina [Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett] (✏️)

•Josephine Butler by Jane Jordan [Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler] (Activist)

•Lady Byron and Her Daughters by Julia Markus [Anna Isabella Noel Milbanke Byron, 11th Baroness of Wentworth] (Mathematician)

•Theodora by Paolo Cesaretti 🧔 [Theodora Empress of Byzantium] (👑)

•Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Jennifer Laurie Shaw [Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob, "Claude Cahun"] (SSA, 📷)

•Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography by Anne Edwards [Sophie Cecilia Kalos, "Maria Callas"] (Opera Singer)

•Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda J. Lear [Rachel Louise Carson] (✏️, Marine Biologist)

•A Girl and Five Brave Horses by Sonora Webster Carver [Sonora Webster Carver] (Horse Diver)

•Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century by Jane Rhodes [Mary Ann Shadd Cary] (WOC, Activist, Publisher)

•Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of Marchesa Casati by Scot D. Ryersson 🧔 and Michael Orlando Yaccarino 🧔 [Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino] (Socialite)

•Mary Cassatt: A Life by Nancy Mathews [Mary Stevenson Cassatt] (🎨)

•Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman [Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire] (Activist,✏️)

•Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett 🧔 [Isabella I of Castile] (👑)

•Chanel: The Enigma by Isabelle Fiemeyer [Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel] (👗)

•The Edge of Time: The Authoritative Biography of Kalpana Chawla by Jean-Pierre Harrison 🧔 [Kalpana Chawla] (WOC, Astronaut, Engineer)

•The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modren China by Hannah Pakuka [Soong May-ling] (WOC)

•Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noël Riley Fitch [Julia Carolyn McWilliams Child] (👩‍🍳)

•Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm [Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm] (WOC, Politician)

•Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley [Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie, Lady Mallowan] (✏️)

•Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Lauched Modern China by Jung Chang [The Current Divine Mother Empress Dowager Ci-Xi Duan-You Kang-Yi Zhao-Yu Zhuang-Cheng Shou-Gong Qin-Xian Chong-Xi of the Great Qing Empire] (WOC, 👑)

•Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell [Clementine Oglivy Spencer Hozior Churchill] (War-time Activist)

•Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff [Cleopatra VII Philopator] (👑)

•Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America's Youngest First Lady by Annette B. Dunlap [Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston]

•Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride by Elizabeth Norton [Anne of Cleves] (👑)

•Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, "Colette"] (SSA, ✏️)

•In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum [Marie Catherine Colvin] (Journalist)

•Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House by Robert Hugh Ferrell 🧔 [Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge] (Teacher)

•Emma Darwin: The Inspirational Wife of a Genius by Edna Healey [Emma Wedgwood Darwin]

•Alexandra David-Neel: Portrait of an Adventurer by Ruth Middleton [Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David-Néel] (Explorer)

•Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis by Abigail Santamaria [Helen Joy Davidson] (✏️)

•Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies by Lara Gabrielle [Marion Cecilia Douras] (📽)

•Bette Davis by Grace May Carter [Ruth Elizabeth Davis] (🎥)

•Emily Wilding Davison: The Martyr Suffragette by Lucy Fisher [Emily Wilding Davison] (Activist, Teacher)

•The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough by Hugo Vickers 🧔 [Gladys Marie Deacon Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough] (Socialite)

•Sentiments of a British-American Woman: Easter de Berdt Reed and the American Revolution by Owen S. Ireland 🧔 [Easter de Berdt Reed] (War-time Activist)

•Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de La Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead [Henriette-Lucy Dillon, Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin-Gouvernet] (Aristocrat)

•Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda [Catherine de' Medici] (👑)

•Queen Alexandra: Loyalty and Love by Frances Diamond [Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia of Denmark] (👑)

•Christine de Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy by Charlotte Cooper-Davis [Christina da Pizzano] (✏️)

•Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant by Kathi Diamant [Dora Diamant] (🎭)

•The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth by Lillian Nayder [Catherine Thomson Hogarth Dickens] (✏️)

•Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Wolff [Emily Elizabeth Dickinson] (SSA, ✏️)

•Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman [Baroness Karen Chistenze Dinesen von Blixen-Finecke, "Isak Dinesen"] (✏️)

•Emily Donelson of Tennessee by Pauline Wilcox Burke [Emily Donelson]

• The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky by Andrew Kaufman 🧔 [Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina Dostoevskaya] (✏️)

•I, Livia: The Counterfeit Criminal by Mary Mudd [Livia Drusilla] (👑)

•Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne Du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay [Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning] (SSA, ✏️)

•My Life by Isadora Duncan [Angela Isadora Duncan] (SSA, Dancer)

•Eleonora Duse: A Biography by Helen Sheehy [Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse] (SSA, 🎭)

•East to Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler [Amelia Mary Earhart] (🛩)

•Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life by Amy Aronson [Crystal Catherine Eastman] (Activist, Lawyer)

•Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady by Marilyn Holt [Mary Geneva Doud Eisenhower]

•The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir [Elizabeth the I of England] (👑)

•Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley [Empress Matilda of England] (👑)

•Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald by Geoffrey Mark [Ella Jane Fitzgerald] (WOC, 🎙)

•Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford [Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald] (✏️)

•Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel [Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, Dauphine of France] (👑)

•The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret Rosenthal [Veronica Franco] (Activist, ✏️)

•Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox [Rosalind Elsie Franklin] (🧬)

•Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore [Jane Franklin Mecom]

•The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography by John Matteson 🧔 [Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli] (Activist, Journalist)

•Indira Gandhi: A Biography by Pupul Jayakar [Indira Priyadarshini Nehru Gandhi] (WOC, Prime Minister)

•Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin [Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin] (Astronomer)

•Garbo by Robert Gottlieb 🧔 [Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, "Greta Garbo"] (SSA, 🎥)

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[theinkwise]

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott book summary

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet, best known for her novel Little Women. She was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1832 and died in 1888. She was the second of four daughters of Amos Bronson Alcott, a teacher and philosopher, and Abigail May Alcott, a social worker. Her family was quite poor and Louisa had to work from an early age to help support them. She worked as a…

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[venuscomb]

A snippet on Masterpiece about Abigail May Alcott, the artist who was also the inspiration for Amy March in Little Women, and the author Louisa May Alcott's sister.

#awesome women #Abigail May Alcott #Little Women #Louisa May Alcott #history #art #Amy March #Youtube

[everbecomesreal]

La Negresse (translation: the black woman). Painting by Abigail May Alcott, sister to Louise May Alcott who wrote Little Women and the inspiration for the character of Amy. This was exhibited at the Paris Salon. It is one of the most beautiful painted portraits I have ever seen. The model’s expression is compelling. I find myself intrigued as to what she’s thinking about. I am no art critic but I would love to know more about this beautiful, beautiful woman.

#black woman #black women in art #abigail may alcott #louisa may alcott #little women #amy #artist #19th century art #paris salon #paris #portrait

[marzipanandminutiae]

Sorry, I don't get it. What's wrong with wearing linen in New England in 1840s?

Ah, I suppose I should have been clearer for those unfamiliar with the area.

Since linen is a particularly light, breathable fabric, it’s really only good as outerwear in the summer. Winters here can get pretty damn cold, even in the southernmost states of the region. When I walked to 8 AM winter classes in university and the wind made my eyes water, the tears regularly froze to my eyelashes.

And that’s nowadays, with climate change in full swing. The Alcotts’ Transcendental commune experiment at Fruitlands was during the Little Ice Age, a period of much lower global average temperatures from about 1303-1860. Attempting to live in linen only- since no manmade alternatives to cold-weather staples like wool and fur yet existed -was complete folly. It’s a miracle none of them died of hypothermia.

(Also veganism was totally unsupportable as a healthy lifestyle back then, but that probably goes without saying.)

#ask #new england #climate change mention #louisa may alcott #transcendentalism #fruitlands #history #also Fruitlands was an object lesson in that concept about progressive men- 'his praxis may be good but does he do the dishes?' #because Abigail Alcott wound up doing most of the work while the men wandered around philosophizing

[the-other-art-blog]

Little women (book): Amy and Laurie part 3

10. Chapter 24: Gossip: Laurie being aware of his friends’ being smitten with Amy, and acting as a big brother, protecting her.

11. Same chapter, Laurie complimented Amy: ‘Amy, you are getting altogether too handsome for a single lady.’

12. Same chapter, Amy teasing him about Miss Randal.

13. Chapter 25: The First Wedding: Amy calming Aunt March and telling her Laurie can be a gentleman, and then going to warn him about the old lady.

14. Same chapter, they opened the “dance floor” at the wedding. They are each others first choice when it comes to dancing!

15. Chapter 26 Artistic Attempts: Laurie’s birthday gift was a tiny coral lobster in the shape of a charm for her watch guard.

16. Chapter 29 Calls: ‘Teddy is a remarkable boy, and can’t be taken as a sample of other boys,’ said Amy, in a tone of solemn conviction, which would have convulsed the ‘remarkable boy’ if he had heard it.

This is such a meaningful quote. Amy holds Laurie in the highest standard. That is why she gets so frustrated when they meet in Nice.

17. Chapter 30 Consequences: Laurie knows that Amy will attend the flower table and offered the flowers from his gardens (True, he usually gifted the Marches flowers, but still). He also took his friends to the fair and made them stay at Amy’s table (not that they needed much convincing, since they were all smitten with he, especially Parker). Also, Amy asks Laurie to buy May’s vases and he gifts them to Amy with flowers:

‘The reward of merit for a magnanimous March,’ as Laurie announced with a flourish.

Their last moment before Europe is my favorite. Laurie is the last person she talks to before leaving and he promised her to take care of her family and come to her if anything happens. This is such a sweet, heart-melting scene.

...she clung to Laurie, the last lingerer, saying with a sob...‘Oh, take care of them for me, and if anything should happen... ‘ ‘I will, dear, I will, and if anything happens, I’ll come and comfort you,’ whispered Laurie...

Once again, I truly believe Laurie is Amy’s rock. She trusts him to keep them safe and to tell her the truth! Her father was right there, but she asked Laurie to do this. This is why she is so disappointed in him when she sees how he’s wasting his life with women and alcohol. And Laurie must have really cared about her to accompany her to the ship!

#little women #amy march #laurie laurence #amy x laurie #amy and laurie #amy & laurie #laurie x amy #louisa may alcott #may abigail alcott

[readyforit]

oh my gosh I just watched little women (2019)! it was so beautiful, cultural and graceful, and I love it so much! everyone’s lived seemed so perfect, oh to be living in america in the nineteenth century. I really loved jo’s character especially, she was such a heroine and a leader and I admired that so much, and I also loved her dynamics with laurie (speaking of which, I love timothée so much and I loved laurie’s quiet disposition and gentle manner) this is just something minor, but I personally didn’t really like how flickery the movie felt, it kept flicking back and forth between the past and the present, like the whole timeline was so messy I couldn’t keep up lasfjdaf. [spoilers: but ahh, I can’t for the life of me believe that laurie ended up with amy (who I found quite annoying to be honest lasjdf) and jo with that weird guy that only showed up for like two seconds of the entire movie.... what is this] but overall, I loved the movie so much, it felt so graceful and beautiful.

#abigail speaks* #abby watches tv #also I just searched louisa may alcott up #and she had a sister named abigail! I wonder who she was in the story

[thecoffeelovingfreak]

The Wrath of the Lamb Character List

*please note the characters’ canon affiliations will not be canon here, they are simply the characters I thought would be most suitable*

*also, the characters will go by their own names, this is simply a reference for who is 'playing' who*

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a famed forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer

Reader (gn) as Special Agent Will Graham, a criminal profiler and hunter of serial killers

Akiko Yosano as Dr. Alana Bloom, a psychology professor and consultant profiler of the FBI

Yukichi Fukuzawa as Special Agent Jack Crawford, head of Behavioral Sciences at the FBI and Reader's employer

Osamu Dazai as Beverly Katz, a crime scene investigator specializing in fiber analysis

Sigma as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, Dostoyevsky's psychotherapist and friend

Nikolai Gogol as one of Dostoyevsky's old friends and former patients

Edogawa Ranpo as Jimmy Price, a crime scene investigator

Nakajima Atsushi as Brian Zeller, a crime scene investigator

Mark Twain as Fredricka “Freddie” Lounds, a tabloid blogger

Chuuya Nakahara as Dr. Frederick Chilton, administrator of the Baltimore State Hospital For The Criminally Insane

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald as Garret Jacob Hobbs

'Grace' Fitzgerald as Abigail Hobbs

Sōseki Natsume as Kade Prurnell, an investigator for the Office of the Inspector General

Ango Sakaguchi as Rinaldo Pazzi, Chief Investigator of the Questura di Firenze.

Ichiyō Higuchi as Chiyoh, the handmaid to Lady Kouyou, Fyodor's aunt

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa as a prisoner in Castle Dostoyevsky, who is eventually killed and displayed by Reader

Louisa May Alcott as Molly Graham, Reader's wife who helped them overcome their dark past

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa as Dr. Abel Gideon

H.P. Lovecraft as Randall Tier

Kamui (Fukuchi) as Francis Dolarhyde

#bsd #bsd x reader #bungou stray dogs #bsd sigma #bsd fyodor #bsd nikolai #bsd ranpo #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bsd atsushi #bsd yosano #bsd fukuzawa #bsd fukuchi #bsd mark twain #bsd akutagawa #coff writes for bsd🥂

[schmergo]

In "Little Women," Louisa May Alcott gave the four sisters thinly-veiled permutations of her own sisters' names. Abigail May became Amy, Lizzie became Beth, Anna became Meg, and Louisa/Lou became Josephine/Jo. So my question is, what similar-enough-to-be-recognizable-but-different-enough-to-deny names would you name your closest family members and friends in a fiction book based on your life?

[little-alien-duck]

3, 4, 5!

thank u so much for the ask!

What were your top five books of the year?

okay okay this is not in any particular order bc I can pick a top 5 but I can’t get more specific than that so I’ll just put them in the order I read them

-Marmee and Louisa by Eve LaPlante: it’s about Louisa May Alcott’s relationship with her mother and it is so sweet and wonderful and gives Abigail Alcott all of the credit she deserves

-The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead: this is one of the most fascinating and also heart wrenching depictions of the US I’ve ever read

-Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng: the reason this is on here is bc the writing is absolutely beautiful

-Forget the Alamo by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford: really fascinating history of the battle of the Alamo and its cultural impact, also just the writing is really funny and entertaining (also I’m biased as a texan)

-Disappearing Earth by Julia Philips: incredibly well crafted mystery novel, genuinely did not see the end coming

Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

I read The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean who’s a science writer and I really wanna read more of his stuff

What genre did you read the most of?

Tbh either like ya bc I read all of a series of unfortunate events of historical non-fiction bc I am a grade A nerd

#appleciders #thank u friend