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Standard Issue for all women. Hello Hannah here and welcome to this week's Sunday Chops,

in which I'm talking to author and editor Liz Rosenberg about Luisa May Allcott.

Allcott, as you probably know, wrote the perennially popular little women. She was a self-described

women's rights woman and an essayist. And Liz has recently edited an excellent new book

out next week, which is called A Strange Life Selected Essays of Luisa May Allcott.

As you're here, I loved it and I thoroughly recommend you give it a read.

Coming up, you'll hear me talking to Liz about hippy communes, civil war nursing, paddling your

own canoe and why I will probably never forgive Amy. But before that, I just want to remind you

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