REFORM & REVOLUTION:  A book release party and conversation with

Kit Bakke
author of MISS ALCOTT’S E-MAIL, Yours for Reforms of All Kinds
"A whirlwind exchange of ideas about reform and revolution...” — Boston Globe

Sunday, October 21st
2-3pm

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall
800 South Halsted

MISS ALCOTT’S E-MAIL, Yours for Reforms of All Kinds is a remarkable memoir by Kit Bakke, former member of the Weather Underground. The book is about a political activist, mother, nurse and management consultant's midlife review interwoven with a biography of her political and literary soul mate Louisa May Alcott.  
Louisa May Alcott was far more than the author of Little Women. She was an abolitionist, a suffragette, and a woman who supported herself in 19th century New England when most women stayed home and did none of those things. Debut author Bakke's enduring appreciation of Louisa May Alcott inspired a uniquely constructed epistolary bio-memoir in which Bakke and Alcott exchange e-mails across time, many on the subject of how women can maintain a life of purpose while entering middle age. This intriguing and lively imagery correspondence is interleaved with Bakke's historical essays about Alcott's life, which provide a concise biography of the women's-movement pioneer.  Bakke also reflects on her own radical past. Bakke's own experience with a revolutionary movement and the controversy it engendered allows her to find in Alcott a kindred spirit. 

for more information please visit: www.kitbakke.com

Sunday, October 21
2-3pm

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall
800 South Halsted

This event is FREE
paid parking available across the street

RSVP recommended to guarantee seating.
Call 312.413.5353.