Title: Surprising disappointment
Product review: This author (Madelon Bedell) seems to have an actual dislike for the Alcotts, which makes me wonder why she went through all the work of writing a biography of them.Just one example: her comment under the only known portrait of Elizabeth, the sister who died young, ('Beth' in Little Women) that she looked 'sly', is just a jaw-drop. This doesn't fit with any of the memories of Elizabeth Alcott, neither those of her sisters nor other contemporary accounts, as shown in Shealy's Alcott In Her Own Time.The sense I had after I got into this book a bit was that the author somehow had her own agenda....I would have given it no stars at all, but I didn't know if I could. A great disappointment; so much could have been done with this subject. I definetly can't recommend it.
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