- Here are some interviews, from Powell's , B&N, and with audio at NPR. Australian Brooks is married to author Tony Horwitz. See Brooks’ website from her publisher, along with an excerpt, Reading Guide & other links.
- March is based on a largely-unseen character in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, that is, Mr. March. Since the character was based on Alcott’s own father, Bronson, Brooks used his journals and letters as primary sources. Bronson Alcott, an idealist educator, was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau. See especially Brooks’ Guardian article on Bronson Alcott, with also “Louisa May Alcott and Little Women:” and “ 'March' Draws on 19th Century Classic to Tell New Civil War Era Story.” Here is an excerpt.
- Additional links:
- Geraldine Brooks Wins Pulitzer Prize for "March" on NPR
- Pulitzer Prize - Wiki
- Pictures From a Peculiar Institution (nasty Times review)
- Peleus & Thetis, parents ofAchilles (p. 88)
- Massachusetts Historical Society | Founded in 1791
- Underground Railroad Resources
- Underground Railroad Quilt Code
- Underground Railroad Quilts & Quilting for Abolitionist Fairs
- Underground Railroad Quilt Myth - Quilt History Myths
- Underground Railroad--History of Slavery, Pictures, Information (National Geographic)
- The Underground Railroad on PBS
- Civil Disobedience and the Underground Railroad
- Underground Railroad-- The Wayside, Concord, MA
- Abolitionism - Wiki
- John Brown
- John Brown (abolitionist) - Wiki
- The Ponds -- from Walden, by Henry Thoreau (p. 81)
- Thoreau PHOTO
- Henry David Thoreau - Wiki
- Emerson - Images
- Louisa May Alcott - Google Images
- Louisa May Alcott Text
- Louisa May Alcott – Wiki
- Amos Bronson Alcott Text
- Orchard House - Home of the Alcotts
- Bronson & The Tree - photo
- Dr. William Ellery Channing - Wiki
- Slaves in a cotton field (illus)
- Photo of cotton
- Cotton: From Field to Fabric- The Process in Pictures
2 comments:
Thanks for the lovely turnout & discussion of Geraldine Brooks's MARCH. A wonderful time was had by all (or so I'm told), both reading & discussing. Oh, except for one reader, who was sure that Louisa May Alcott must be -quote - "... turning over in her grave."
Here we see the inherent difficulty of continuing the story of an existing iconic character... Chandler's Marlowe continued by Parker, Doyle's Holmes continued by Chabon & Laurie King, Dicken's Drood, Eyre's Mrs. Rochester by Rhys.... can you think of others? They are usually disliked, not up to the standard of the original, excoriated beyond proportion. Same thing often happens in movies & tv when one writer inherits another's creation.
Former East Sider Erica breezed into town over the weekend and stopped by the store to say hello. She lives in Washington now... but when she was in LA, could not replicate her East Side Reading experience, so she started her own book club in the local Barnes & Noble, reading many of the same books as we did. Way to go, Erica! You are a brave soul, opting for Real Lit in the face of celebrity-hunters & semi-starlets. { wild applause }. Anyway....
Sorry to say that I won't be back in Florida until November, so I'll miss March. I did read it a while ago, though, (as recommended by my "Bookmarks" magazine) and thoroughly enjoyed it. During the same time frame, I happened to read My Jim, based on the character of the wife that Huckleberry Finn's escaped slave left behind. The two books complemented each other, in my mind.
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