false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181483904m/1157902.jpg 1157902 1 Louisa May Alcott was ten years old when her father decided to move the family to a farm called Fruitlands, to dress everybody in identical linen trousers, to give up sugar, milk, even honey. He had wanted to show the world how to live a pure life without money, and without exploiting other people or animals. Though at first this "Newness" seemed exciting to Louisa and her sisters-could they make a difference in how other people thought? Could they live on love alone?-the children soon saw that it was hard work, sometimes too hard, for a family to be so noble. After nearly nine months of trying to live a pure life, when the family was almost both starving and freezing to death, when all the other friends and helpers had given up on the utopian vision, the Alcotts finally moved back to town. But the experience would stay with Louisa May Alcott forever. <br><br> Using fragments of Louisa May Alcott's diary, as well as the writing of others who lived at Fruitlands, Jeannine Atkins has recreated what it must have been like for the future author of Little Women to spend that fascinating, but ultimately, frightening year of self-sacrifice. 1145487 1 10 2001 Becoming Little Women: Louisa May at Fruitlands total:9|5:4|4:1|3:4|2:0|1:0| 9 36 14 2 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 13:59:25 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 13:59:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 05 19:29:35 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 19:30:21 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 13:53:41 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 13:54:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 07 13:39:20 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 13:39:20 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Mar 24 16:38:17 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 12:18:12 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 16:38:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 26 10:13:55 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 10:29:08 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Oct 22 18:46:44 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 13:46:06 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 18:46:44 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Aug 22 02:06:09 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 02:06:09 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Aug 20 13:54:14 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 13:54:14 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Aug 17 05:43:41 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 05:43:41 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Aug 06 17:22:18 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 17:22:25 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jun 17 13:30:56 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 13:30:56 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue May 27 09:37:10 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 09:37:15 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Nov 07 12:28:21 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 07 12:28:21 -0800 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1157902