LaPlante, Eve

Chronicles the life of Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan woman banished from Massachusetts in 1637 for her unconventional religious beliefs and the threat she posed, as an outspoken woman, to social order in the colony.

The real "Marmee" from Louisa May Alcott's book, Little Women, is her mother. Using the Alcotts' intimate diaries and other private family papers recently discovered in a family attic shows that Abigail May Alcott was a gifted writer and thinker and she fought for universal civil rights, an end to slavery, and women's suffrage.

Chronicles the life of author Louisa May Alcott, focusing on her relationship with her mother, known as Marmee.