Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother

New York: Free Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1451620667 . Only slight wear ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Includes scholarly notes, bibliography and index. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 368 pages; "In Marmee & Louisa, LaPlante, Abigail’s great-niece and Louisa’s cousin, re-creates their shared story from diaries, letters, and personal papers, some recently discovered in a family attic and many others that were thought to have been destroyed. Here at last Abigail is revealed in her full complexity—long dismissed as a quiet, self-effacing background figure, she comes to life as a fascinating writer and thinker in her own right. A politically active feminist firebrand, she was a highly opinionated, passionate, ambitious woman who fought for universal civil rights, publicly advocating for abolition, women’s suffrage, and other defin-ing moral struggles of her era." .