Download My Heart Is Boundless: Writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's Mother AudioBook Free
Little Women's "Marmee" is one of the most recognizable mothers in American literature. But the real female behind the fiction - Louisa May Alcott's own mother, Abigail - has for more than a century continued to be shrouded in secret. Scholars presumed that her papers were burned up by her little princess and partner, as they said, which little additional information survived. Until now. When Abigail's biographer and great-niece Eve LaPlante found a assortment of letters and diaries within an attic trunk and started out checking out the Alcott family archives, a home window opened onto the life span of this female who may have for too much time been hiding in plain view. These discoveries, yet others, inform LaPlante's groundbreaking new dual biography. No self-effacing housewife, Abigail was a separate copy writer and thinker, a feminist way before her time. She educated her daughters the importance of encouraging themselves and dreamed of a day when a woman, like a man, could enjoy both a family group and a job. Here at last, in her own words, is this amazing woman's story, brought to the public for the very first time. Filled with wit, appeal, and astonishing wisdom, Abigail's private writings give a moving, intimate family portrait of a mother, a partner, a sister, and a brutal intellect that requirements to be listened to.
