Louisa May Alcott
How do authors’ gardens inspire them?
A sumptuous coffee-table book in which writers from Henry James to Frances Hodgson Burnett are briefly glimpsed while passing through the beautiful spaces that outlast them
150 years on, what makes Little Women such an enduring classic?
The great thing about Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women is that it has something for everyone: stay-at-home types have…
Bare and authentic or full and fake? The dilemma of preserving writers' houses
Every year, tens of thousands of visitors flock to the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, in order to see…
