We Alcotts (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Aileen L. Fisher, Olive Rabe
- First Published: 1968
- Time of Work: 1827–1869
- Setting: Massachusetts, particularly the Concord and Boston areas
- Principal Characters: Abba May Alcott, Amos Bronson Alcott, Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Alcott, Abba May Alcott Nieriker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Social reform, Authors or writers, Education or educators, Marriage, Writing, New England, Poverty or poor people, Novelists, Sisters, Biography, Transcendentalism, Philanthropy or philanthropists
- Locales: Massachusetts
Form and Content
We Alcotts: The Story of Louisa M. Alcott’s Family as Seen Through the Eyes of “Marmee,” Mother of “Little Women” adopts the first-person voice and loving perspective of Abba May Alcott. It follows the fortunes of her family from her first meeting with the fascinating Amos Bronson Alcott in 1827 to the day in 1869 when their daughter Louisa announced that the last of their debts were paid. Aileen L. Fisher and Olive Rabe take their tone as well as their material from the voluminous texts left by the Alcotts and their friends. Many dialogues are...
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