tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post3464543732156520603..comments2023-11-03T03:45:54.322-04:00Comments on Fox Home: Happy Eating Holiday! Plus - Authors!Foxessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-37569022336685583792013-12-01T18:56:00.625-05:002013-12-01T18:56:00.625-05:00I just love that Alcott's books were an Author...I just love that Alcott's books were an Authors' suite, am dthat she had the March sisters playing the game!<br /><br />Ms. Alcott could be a sly one when she so wished.<br /><br />I think I have all her books memorized -- having read Little Women and Little Men first when about age nine, I think -- acknowledging that memory has been proved by scientists no less as notoriously unreliable! :)<br /><br />Love, C,Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-24857342396968238192013-12-01T16:23:01.657-05:002013-12-01T16:23:01.657-05:00I had no idea the game had such a lengthy history ...I had no idea the game had such a lengthy history until I saw the wiki entry. I'd figured it was just a novelty game my dad had picked up at a toy store. That's very interesting about its presence in Little Women -- I hadn't remembered that. How amusing!Sarah Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-78802761090442492882013-12-01T15:17:45.521-05:002013-12-01T15:17:45.521-05:00That's exactly the deck, Sarah. How exciting t...That's exactly the deck, Sarah. How exciting to see someone else played and remembers doing so!<br /><br />I first heard of Authors from Louisa May Alcott, whose Little Women played the game.<br /><br />Alcott and Authors played a huge role in my early education in both literature and history.<br /><br />What is curious, of course, is that Alcott's books were on my deck of Authors, while the game, They Say, wasn't devised until 1863. One wonders if this isn't another moment in which Alcott the author is having a bit of fun in her text?<br /><br />It's been updated, wiki says, several times, though still available. Wonder what writers have taken the place of our classics?<br /><br />Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-81969472543893489392013-11-30T21:21:16.266-05:002013-11-30T21:21:16.266-05:00Yes, actually!
My dad introduced me to Authors,...Yes, actually! <br /><br />My dad introduced me to Authors, and we used to play regularly when I was growing up. I take it this is the game of cards that represented books by Hawthorne, Dickens, Longfellow, Alcott, and other notables, where you had to collect four of a kind. It was one of my first introductions to great works of literature.Sarah Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.com