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Marianne Faithfull and her dog, Sara Bingley, at home in Reading, England. October 15, 1964.

Albert Finney, May 9, 1936 – February 7, 2019.

Françoise Hardy visits Carnaby Street and British Gear, a boutique in London’s Carnaby Street, UK, February 1967.

Fun things I learned:

The orchard House had old delapededated rooms from the 1850s added to it

The kitchen was put right above the well

Most artwork in the house was done by May alcott

The Alcotts moved 20 times before moving to orchard house

The Alcott family lived in the house for at least 20 years until Louisa bought her sister Anna a new house and they moved in

The Alcotts left November 14 1877, the home was sold to a family friend in 1884

Amos Bronson Alcott opened a school and helped with the creation of recess

Ralph Emerson gave Amos Bronson Alcott a loan to buy orchard House

Amos Bronson Alcott made Louisa Alcott her own desk in a time were writing should not be taken seriously if you were a girl

Marmee wrote too

Marmee was better in real life than the book

Marmee often has tea in the master room with children

Abba Alcott was actually called Marmee because anna had trouble saying Mama

Anna alcott and John met at theater when she was the leading woman and him the leading man in a production

When Anna Alcott had kids a playroom was put adjacent to the master room

Anna and John got married in their living room and sent invitations out the day of the wedding

Louisa Alcott hated a portrait that had done of her, and it was done by the same man who painted Lincoln's portrait

Louisa Alcott thought orchard house was to grand a name for a building with dilapidated building attached to it

Louisa Alcott was a nurse in the war and she got sick not her father like in the book

Elizabeth Alcott died before she could live in orchard house

May Alcott was allowed to draw on the walls of her bedroom

May Alcott had an art studio in the home where she Would allow people to visit as long as they posed for her

May Alcott was the art teacher to the man who sculpted the Lincoln memorial

May Alcott painted flowers next to Louisa's desk because she wanted to give Louisa flowers everyday when she was sick but couldn't so She painted them instead

May Alcott would often paint things for her when staying with a sick Louisa

May Alcott and her roommate painted an owl still life and they both got a taxidermy owl to do so, May got hers cheaper than her roommate because she knew french

May Alcott exhibiting a painting at the Paris Salon. In 1877 her still life Fruits and Bottles was accepted and was placed at almost eye level. She wrote to her sister joking that she too was famous

May Alcott husband was 16 years younger than her

May Alcott illustrated the first edition of little women

May Alcott room has stairs connected to the dining room where they would put on plays and run up into Mays room to make quick changes between acts

May designed a family crest that she placed on a fireplace cover

May Alcott went to Europe in 187O with Louisa and returned to Europe in 1872, 1874, 1876 and moved there fully in 1877

Things my Boyfriend learned:

Louisa Alcott wrote the first part of little women in on that desk

Bronson was very progressive with his ways of teaching

Bronson was very appreciative of culture and nature

Marianne Faithfull and Sara Bingley, 1964

Marianne Faithfull et son Dalmatien chez elle à Londres, le 15 octobre 1964