Marmee & Louisa : the untold story of Louisa May Alcott and her mother
(2012)
By:
LaPlante, Eve
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/ALCOTT,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Free Press, 2012
EDITION
First Free Press hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
ix, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781451620665, 1451620667, 1451620667 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The author argues that Louisa's "Marmee," Abigail May Alcott, was in fact the intellectual and emotional center of her daughter's world--exploding the myth that her outspoken idealist father was the source of her progressive thinking and remarkable independence