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The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls WilderWe can expect to see magic. Heroines and women all, we just might make some of our own. READ THIS BOOK: • When your stomach hurts, and grown-up remedies like ginger tea aren’t helping • In a literary double feature with A Little Princess • When you’re feeling contrary MARY’S LITERARY SISTERS: • Leslie Burke in Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson • Gemma Doyle in A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray • Sara Crewe in A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett Epilogue In 1863 Louisa May Alcott, bedridden with typhoid after her ill-fated stint as a Civil War nurse, had a strange hallucination. She lay in her bed, sweating and moaning, trying and failing to look away from the dark Spaniard who claimed to be her husband, a man who hid behind curtains and closet doors and took her by surprise again and again. She cried out in agony; he responded with a terrifying “Lie still, my dear.” One hundred and forty-six years later, I lay in my own bed, stricken with my third case of bronchitis in a year. I was nearing the end of the writing process on the book you have just read ...» |
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