Cornelia Meigs

• 1921
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Cornelia Lynde Meigs (also wrote as: Adair Aldon) (1884-1973) was an American author and educator. She became a professor of English at Bryn Mawr in 1932. She is best known for Invincible Louisa, a biography of author Louisa May Alcott, which won a N...

• 1928
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1928. Meigs is the winner of the Newberry Medal for her book, Invincible Louisa, the story of the author of Little Women. This book begins: The bent plum trees set in the square of rough grass behind the Blackbird Inn, were as white on this mild Febr...

• 1932
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Barred from his family home- stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees...

• 1933
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Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, the four famous March sisters in Little Women, were more than just storybook characters. The author, Louisa May Alcott, based that book on her own loving family -- her parents and her sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May. Jo wa...

• Jan-2014
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A Mystery set in early American History. When Jeremy and Hugh arrive with their family to stay with their Grandfather in New Jersey they find only bad news waiting for them. The family fortune is possibly lost due to one of the family ships being s...

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Cornelia Lynde Meigs (also wrote as: Adair Aldon) (1884-1973) was an American author and educator. She became a professor of English at Bryn Mawr in 1932. She is best known for Invincible Louisa, a biography of author Louisa May Alcott, which won a N...

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