Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
by John Matteson | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0393333590 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0393333590 Global Overview for this book
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Publication Date: November 17, 2008
"An amazing story [told] with clarity and intelligence ... colorful and insightful."—Martin Rubin, Los Angeles Times
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.
26 illustrations
Publication Date: November 17, 2008
"An amazing story [told] with clarity and intelligence ... colorful and insightful."—Martin Rubin, Los Angeles Times
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.
26 illustrations
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I truly look forward to reading this book. I'm a fan of Louisa May Alcott and know she had an interesting upbringing with her father and his intellectual friends.
I truly look forward to reading this book. I'm a fan of Louisa May Alcott and know she had an interesting upbringing with her father and his intellectual friends.