Michaela MacColl

News, Events & Appearances

View from Pagoda Hill Launches Soon

I’ll be doing a virtual launch of View from Pagoda Hill at the Westport Library in April 2021.  Details coming soon!

 

I’m Grateful to the Grateful American Prize

Freedom’s Price has been awarded the Honorable Mention by the Grateful American Prize.

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Here’s the criteria:

The GRATEFUL AMERICAN™ BOOK PRIZE is the only award for excellence in writing, storytelling and illustration for children’s historical non-fiction and fiction focused on the events and personalities that have shaped the United States since the country’s founding.

I’m so flattered to say that this is the second time one of my books has been so honored. Last year, The Revelation of Louisa May was the recipient.

Do you know me?

I belong to a writers’ group on Facebook and one day the topic was “Google Alerts.” I had noticed that my alerts seemed to have gotten less and less effective. Someone mentioned Mention.com.  I tried it out for free and found all sorts of things I’d missed about myself. This lovely site is called Women You Should know and it thinks everyone should get to know me!

Louisa May Alcott goes to war!

International Women’s month goes on! There’s a terrific website called Kidlit Celebrates Women’s History Month – they asked me to contribute a post about Louisa May Alcott. I wrote about her service in the Civil War.  What I didn’t mention in the post is that when Louisa was ill with typhoid the doctors dosed her with mercury — a common remedy at the time.  Most scholars believe that Louisa’s early death at 56 was due to heavy metal poisoning — so she continued to sacrafice for her country. Check out the blog post here.

An illustration from Hospital Sketches in 1892. This was Louisa's fictionalized memoir of her time as a hospital nurse.

It’s International Women’s Week!

I’ve written a post about Louisa May Alcott’s particular practical feminism. Check it out at E. Kristin Anderson’s blog, Write All the Words. I talk about the real life Marmee and Louisa’s relationship with her.

The true life "Marmee!"