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Marmee & Louisa

the Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
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Jun 05, 2013jgraham48 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
How did 18th-century people find the time to write so many letters and to keep journals ? Did they all have servants ? Abigail May Alcott and her daughter, author Louisa May Alcott, lived during the time of the Civil War, negro emancipation, increasing urbanization of America, and birth pangs of feminism. Louisa May Alcott never married or had children, but she gave us terrific female characters and female experiences based on Abigail Alcott's lifelong journals and letters and on her own journals and experiences growing up with an improvident father and an intelligent, hard-working mother. Eve LaPlante provides a wide-ranging account of the women in Louisa and Abigail Alcott's immediate families as well as their ancestors and their descendants. Well-documented from journal and letter sources.