Wednesday, August 17, 2022

"a real good vortex"

17 August 2022: In 1868 letter to her sister Anna, Louisa May Alcott wrote, “You ask what I am writing. Well, two books half done, nine stories simmering, and stacks of fairy stories moulding on the shelf. I can’t do much, as I have no time to get into a real good vortex" (59).

I think it is very meta that the only part of my Alcott entry that I had time to write today was the introduction, where I use this anecdote.  

Work Cited

Alcott, Louisa May. The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott. Edited by Madeline Stern, et. al, Little, Brown, 1987.

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