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Only Gossip Prospers

Only Gossip Prospers

Tosiello, Lorraine

Paperback

RomanceHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 194959811X
ISBN13: 9781949598117
Publisher: Pink Umbrella Books LLC
Published: Oct 16 2019
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In late 1875 Louisa May Alcott spent a winter in New York City. Her journals give a rough sketch of the people she met, the salons she attended and a few outings that she enjoyed. She intended to stay until I am tired of it, but left abruptly in mid-January.

Filled with biographical references to Louisa's family, New Yorkers of the time and Alcott's literary works, Only Gossip Prospers intertwines the real people Louisa met, the actual events of New York City and a host of fictional characters who inhabit a world that Louisa herself would recognize. Written in a style reminiscent of Alcott's juvenile fiction and short adventure stories, the book is part historical fiction, part love letter to the charm of 1870s New York and part biography of Louisa and her contemporaries. Only Gossip Prospers enters the debate that still hovers over Little Women as to what was real and what was made up. There are some twists and surprises, including one that will satisfy the greatest question left unanswered for fans of Little Women: what really happened between Jo and Laurie?

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