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Since its release almost 150 years ago, Louisa May Alcott's basic Little Women is a mainstay in American literature, while ardent Jo March and her calm, much loved "Marmee" have molded generations of young women. Biographers have constantly credited her dad, Bronson Alcott, for Louisa's professional success, assuming that this outspoken idealist was the foundation of her progressive thinking and remarkable independence. But in this riveting dual biography, Eve LaPlante explodes those common myths, drawing on unfamiliar and unexplored characters and journals showing that Louisa's "Marmee", Abigail May Alcott, was in fact the intellectual and emotional centre of her daughter's world. It had been Abigail who urged Louisa to write, who inspired many of her stories, and who provided her the support and courage she needed to follow her unconventional avenue. Abigail, long dismissed as a silent, self-effacing associate to her famous spouse and little princess, is revealed here as a politically active feminist firebrand, a fascinating thinker in her own right. Analyzing family papers, archival documents, and diaries considered to have been demolished, LaPlante paints an exquisitely moving and absolutely convincing portrait of a female decades ahead of her time - and the fiercely 3rd party daughter who was both inspired and restricted by her mother's dreams of flexibility. A story guaranteed to carefully turn all previous scholarship on its head, Marmee and Louisa is a gorgeously written and deeply experienced biography of two remarkable women and a key to our knowledge of Louisa May Alcott's life and work.
