An Old Guy Takes Some Lessons From ‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’0

• Culture, Family, Featured, History, Literature, MomThink
• July 16, 2026

Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the