Madeleine B Stern
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Language
English
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Six years before she wrote Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, in financial straits, entered "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," a novelette, in a newspaper contest. Not only did it win the $100 prize, but, published anonymously, it marked the first in the series of "blood & thunder tales" that would be her livelihood for years. In Behind a Mask, four Alcott thrillers are introduced: "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," "The Mysterious Key," "The Abbot's...
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Language
English
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The American Story of the Bookstores on Fourth Avenue from the 1890s to the 1960s.
New York City has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived the New York Booksellers' Row, or Book Row.
This richly anecdotal memoir features historical photographs and...
Author
Publisher
New England Quarterly, Inc.]
Pub. Date
1943
Language
English
Description
Deals with involvement by Louisa May Alcott and her sisters in amateur theatricals in Concord, Mass., and Walpole, N.H. (particularly the Amateur Dramatic Company of Walpole and the Concord Stock Company, in which F.B. Sanborn and George Bartlett were also involved) and with Louisa May's experience as a playwright.
Author
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
Edited typescript, production and reader's galleys, page proofs, camera-ready copy (incl. illustrations), and dummy used in production of Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, edited and with an introduction by Madeleine Stern (New York: William Morrow, 1976), and one memo from Harvey Hoffman at William Morrow & Company with instructions regarding printing. Also, letter to C.E. Frazer Clark, Jr., and printed catalog...
