Abigail (Abba) May Alcott
, her mother, sprang from a loving, wealthy, well-connected Boston family. Her marriage to a wildly impractical indebted idealist was seen as a step downwards.
Saxton, Martha. “Pursued by Hounds”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 4, pp. 15-16.
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She was very close to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Louisa May Alcott
LMA
began writing while she was very young. At the age of ten she began a journal which was soon afterwards read and commented on by her mother
. She was also a regular contributor...
