Thanks to the women of the Georgetown book club for having me at their summer meeting to discuss Marmee & Louisa and My Heart Is Boundless. It was a great crowd, very knowledgeable about the Alcotts and Mays.
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![]() Here's the link to an interview I did in Dallas last winter about Marmee & Louisa -- http://irvingtx.swagit.com/play/02122014-911 ![]() For Women’s History Month, the Providence Journal explored the relevance today of Anne Hutchinson, “founding mother, feminist, religious zealot, she-devil.” To read the story, by Bill Van Siclen, click on the link: http://www.providencejournal.com/features/lifestyle/content/20140302-founding-mother-anne-hutchinson-religious-zealot-feminist-she-devil.ece ![]() The Pequot Library of Southport CT hosted a Marmee & Louisa talk as the book came out in paperback, joining its companion, My Heart Is Boundless, a paperback original. Other bloggers have been doing interviews on the two Alcott books. View Q&As at: http://bit.ly/17LbK0a https://read.rifflebooks.com/list/115499 Portsmouth RI, Birthplace of Democracy, founded by Anne Hutchinson in 1638, celebrates 375th10/31/2013 ![]() In Portsmouth, RI, which celebrates the 375th anniversary of its founding by Anne Hutchinson this year, I was honored to give the Kearney Lecture — “Anne Hutchinson: Founding Mother or American Jezebel?” — at the Portsmouth Abbey School on October 25. To my left in the photo is Father Damian Kearney, who created the Kearney Lecture series in honor of his late brother, Gerald Kearney. ![]() To learn about about the “women in history” panel at the Boston Book Festival this Saturday, Oct. 19, with Megan Marshall and Carla Kaplan, click on the link: http://artery.wbur.org/2013/10/16/boston-book-festival?google_editors_picks=true Stella Gould’s interview about Marmee & Louisa, filmed at Orchard House in Concord, can be viewed at:
http://www.wcvb.com/biographies-marmee-and-lousia-and-the-making-of-markova/-/9849586/21620764/-/p00aefz/-/index.html ![]() This Sunday, July 21, at 1pm, there will be a celebration of the 375th anniversary of the founding, by Anne Hutchinson, of Portsmouth, RI. There will be a Tent Picnic and Community Fest at Founder’s Brook Park, Portsmouth RI, with live music, an interactive outdoor exhibit, and guest speakers on the life and times circa 1638 of Portsmouth’s celebrated Anne Hutchinson. Admission is free. More info: 401-846-8439 www.portsmouthri375.com or annehutchinson.org Sponsored by the Friends of Anne Hutchinson ![]() The Improper Bostonian, in its Best of Boston issue, named Marmee & Louisa this year’s Best Nonfiction Book by a Local Author. Dennis Lehane’s novel Live By Night, which “has Hollywood executives all but offering lap dances for the exclusive movie rights,” got the fiction honor, so we’re in great company. From improper.com: “Behind every great woman is her mother, or so argues Eve LaPlante’s 2012 dual-subject biography of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and her mother, Abigail May Alcott. LaPlante, a Brookline native and Alcott descendant, draws on new documents that contradict the popular assumption that the 19th-century writer owed her then-uncommon literary success to her father. Instead, this scrupulous ancestral study reveals that it was Abigail’s progressive thinking that influenced her daughter’s writing. Skeptical? Read the book yourself.” |
AuthorEve is the author of Who Needs A Statue?, Seized, American Jezebel, Marmee & Louisa, and Salem Witch Judge. Archives
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