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Louisa May Alcott is best known as the author of Little Women. But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father’s failed utopian commune, life as a Civil War nurse and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her family’s poverty. Blending gentle satire with reportage and emotive biography, A Strange Life – edited by Liz Rosenberg and with a preface by Jane Smiley – shows Alcott to be one of the sharpest wits in American literature.
Notting Hill Editions aim to revive the art of the essay and to produce beautiful books to be cherished. In an era of information-overload, these collectible pocket-sized books distil ideas that linger in the mind.