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Abigail May Alcott's personal writings were first collected and published in 2012, under the title My Heart Is Boundless: Writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's Mother (Free Press). The collection was edited by her great-niece Eve LaPlante (descended from Abba's brother Samuel Joseph May ), the author of the dual biography Marmee & Louisa ...
Louisa May Alcott (/ ˈ ɔː l k ə t,-k ɒ t /; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886).
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. [1] [2] The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I will never forgive Amy for burning Jo’s manuscript and then marrying the love of her sister’s life. ... My mother was a librarian; I always returned my books.
"Moral Pap and Male Mothers: The Political Subtexts of Louisa May Alcott's 'Eight Cousins or, The Aunt Hill' ". Legacy. 16 (2). University of Nebraska Press: 154–167. JSTOR 25679300. Hamblen, Abigail Ann (1970). "Louisa May Alcott and the "Revolution" in Education". The Journal of General Education. 22 (2). Penn State University Press: 81–92.
In her account, Alcott provides the real people involved with thin pseudonymous disguises. Her father Amos Bronson Alcott is "Abel Lamb", while his partner and community co-founder Charles Lane is "Timon Lion"; Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's mother and Bronson's wife, is "Sister Hope". Alcott depicts her father as dominated by his more forceful ...
Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (July 26, 1840 – December 29, 1879) was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Amy [ 1 ] (an anagram of May) in her sister's semi-autobiographical novel Little Women (1868).
Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, believes he found about 20 stories and poems written by Louisa May Alcott under her own name as well as pseudonyms for ...