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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Louisa May Alcott
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.