Marmee & Louisa : The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother

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ver since my mother gave me a copy of Little Women when I was eleven, I have been reading Louisa Alcott's books and biographies of her. I was excited to learn more about her mother. The author who is a descendent but not a direct one has researched both of their lives extensively and has a big se...

from rainpebble

Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother by Eve LaPlante I am so glad that I read this book. All of the other bios & historians I've read on the subject matter of the Alcott family led me to believe that Louisa's father, Bronson, was the man behind the success of Loui...

from bogopea

Excellently researched, by descendant of the Alcotts. First of many books I have read about Louisa May that delved into her relationship with her mother. Amazingly, Abigail Alcott was a proponent of women's rights (including voting) and passed that sense of justice to her daughters. Abigail was a...

from Suzanne_Mitchell

Great book. The relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her mother. Written by family member

from kaulsu

What an interesting family. What a dysfunctional one, too! Bronson Alcott was completely narcissistic and a loser in every way. One highlight of the tale was that Louisa had him read Marmee's journals after her death. Even he could not evade the facts that his wife was miserable in their marriage...