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The Washington Post reviews Marmee & Louisa!

11/30/2012

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The novelist Kelly O'Connor McNees has writtten a terrific review of Marmee & Louisa in the Washington Post.

Click to read the review:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-marmee-and-louisa-by-eve-laplante-on-louisa-may-alcott-and-her-mother/2012/11/30/12b38db4-21d9-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_story.html


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BUST reviews Marmee & Louisa

11/27/2012

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Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's mother

BUST magazine has given MARMEE & LOUISA a five-breast review!

This seems appropriate for a biography of a woman (Abigail May Alcott) who in September 1844 wrote to her sister-in-law Lucretia May, who had just given birth, "When God puts the babies in our laps, he places all the needfuls in its vicinity for its life and health - air, water, and Mother's titty is all it wants for a good while."

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Wonderful Boston Globe review of MARMEE & LOUISA!

11/21/2012

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Click to read the Boston Globe review:
http://bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2012/11/20/book-review-marmee-louisa-the-untold-story-louisa-may-alcott-and-her-mother-eve-laplante/ksnrq8Azndrm4EwTUMdmFN/story.html
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Christmas won't be Christmas without...

11/19/2012

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  ...MARMEE & LOUISA and MY HEART IS BOUNDLESS!

Returning by train from giving the Henry Whitney Bellows Lecture at All Souls Historical Society and a book talk at the New York Geneagraphical & Biographical Society, I'm tired and eager to see our daughters who are coming home from college for the holidays. Happy Thanksgiving! 

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Women's experiences, then (in the Alcotts' time) and now

11/12/2012

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MARMEE & LOUISA has received great reviews in PEOPLE, USA TODAY, and BOOKPAGE. 
Reviewers are noting similarities between Abigail and Louisa May Alcott’s experiences and our experiences today. Women and girls in nineteenth-century America were constrained by the expectation that they be retiring, docile, and lacking in judgment or stature. Abigail and Louisa rebelled against this cultural convention, trying valiantly to achieve their dreams of freedom in a world that did not want or expect them to be more than private figures, mothers and housewives. Women today have more options and opportunities than the Alcott women had, but we still face some of the challenges they faced: how to balance work and family, how to hold children close while letting them go, how to combine a public and a private life, how to be true to one’s ideals without causing harm, and how to find a voice in a world that does not listen. These remain struggles today.
 



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Publication day for Abigail and Louisa

11/6/2012

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Amid the dramatic election of 2012, two new May-Alcott books are out. PEOPLE reviewed MARMEE & LOUISA, USA Today will weigh in soon, and a Goodreads reader just posted this review:
http://mapleandaquill.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/marmee-louisa-the-untold-story-of-louisa-may-alcott-and-her-mother-by-eve-laplante/

On election day, as women across America go to the polls to mark their ballots, three cheers for the Alcott mother and daughter!

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    Eve LaPlante is the author, most recently, of the biography Marmee & Louisa and the editor of My Heart Is Boundless.

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