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Letter of advice from T.S. Eliot to a young writer

Posted on August 13, 2023August 13, 2023 by historyofculture

T.S. Eliot, one of the most well-known authors in the world at the time, was contacted by Alice Quinn in 1952 in need of help and direction. Since no one “becomes” a writer by accident, the sixteen-year-old asked the poet if he could discuss the writing process and how he personally acquired his poetic sensibility…

Letter of advice from Louisa May Alcott to a youth author

Posted on June 12, 2023June 25, 2023 by historyofculture

A feminist activist, a poet and a writer, famous above all for the novel “Little Women” and “Good Wives (1869) followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages, replied to one of those writers with some valuable advice on Christmas Day, circa 1878: My Dear Miss Churchill,I can only say to you as I…