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A Modern Mephistopheles
- ... that Louisa May Alcott liked taking a break from writing “moral pap for the young” when she wrote A Modern Mephistopheles?
- Source: Cheney, Edna Dow (2010). Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals. Carlisle, Massachussetts, USA: Applewood Books. ISBN 978-1-4290-4460-8. “Went for some weeks to the Bellevue, and wrote ‘A Modern Mephistopheles’ for the No Name Series. It has been simmering ever since I read Faust last year. Enjoyed doing it, being tired of providing moral pap for the young.” (Page 296)
- ALT1: ... that Louisa May Alcott wrote A Modern Mephistopheles as part of an anonymous series in which readers were meant to guess the author? Source: Cheney, Edna Dow (2010). Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals. Carlisle, Massachussetts, USA: Applewood Books. ISBN 978-1-4290-4460-8. “‘A Modern Mephistopheles’ was written among the earlier volumes of the No Name Series, when the chief idea of the authors was to puzzle their readers by disguising their style as much as possible, that they might enjoy the guessing and criticism as each novel appeared. This book was very successful in preserving its incognito; and many persons still insist that it could not have been written by the author of ‘Little Women.’” (Cheney 379, quoting Louisa May Alcott)
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- Comment: Link for Cheney: https://books.google.com/books?id=wu4x7eZ2IccC. Link for Sanderson: https://www.proquest.com/docview/1302638905 (may require a subscription)
Created by Heidi Pusey BYU (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.
Heidi Pusey BYU (talk) 18:19, 10 May 2024 (UTC).