Scarlet Stockings
by Louisa May Alcott
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So peace was declared, and lasted unbroken for the remaining week of his stay, when he proposed to take Kate to the city for a little gayety. Miss Morgan openly approved the plan, but secretly felt as if the town was about to be depopulated, and tried to hide her melancholy in her substitute's socks. They were not large enough, however, to absorb it all, and when Lennox went to make his adieu, it was perfectly evident that the Doctor's Belle was out of tune.Tags
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This short story is upbeat and humorous.
Belle is a good-hearted yet sometimes odd young woman. She attracts the attentions of Harry, though she seems not to feel anything for him.
At length they develop a friendship. Through Belle's influence Harry becomes a soldier for a year. He does this only to impress her.
Harry has a thing for Belle's scarlet stockings, though unfortunately (for us male readers, anyway) the reader only gets a glimpse of red-stockinged ankle, which is often as much leg as one gets to see in per-twentieth-century literature (except for the odd erotic work).
A good read.
Belle is a good-hearted yet sometimes odd young woman. She attracts the attentions of Harry, though she seems not to feel anything for him.
At length they develop a friendship. Through Belle's influence Harry becomes a soldier for a year. He does this only to impress her.
Harry has a thing for Belle's scarlet stockings, though unfortunately (for us male readers, anyway) the reader only gets a glimpse of red-stockinged ankle, which is often as much leg as one gets to see in per-twentieth-century literature (except for the odd erotic work).
A good read.
I must admit that the final ruse had me going for a minute. I always enjoy an Alcott story.
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Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Two years later, she moved with her family to Boston and in 1840 to Concord, which was to remain her family home for the rest of her life. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a transcendentalist and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott early realized that her show more father could not be counted on as sole support of his family, and so she sacrificed much of her own pleasure to earn money by sewing, teaching, and churning out potboilers. Her reputation was established with Hospital Sketches (1863), which was an account of her work as a volunteer nurse in Washington, D.C. Alcott's first works were written for children, including her best-known Little Women (1868--69) and Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871). Moods (1864), a "passionate conflict," was written for adults. Alcott's writing eventually became the family's main source of income. Throughout her life, Alcott continued to produce highly popular and idealistic literature for children. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), Under the Lilacs (1878), and Jack and Jill (1881) enjoyed wide popularity. At the same time, her adult fiction, such as the autobiographical novel Work: A Story of Experience (1873) and A Modern Mephistopheles (1877), a story based on the Faust legend, shows her deeper concern with such social issues as education, prison reform, and women's suffrage. She realistically depicts the problems of adolescents and working women, the difficulties of relationships between men and women, and the values of the single woman's life. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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