Library staff hosted a book discussion of We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Volume II onsite at 11:00 AM EST; at 2:00 PM EST, the Library offered a live audio webcast about the book in which listeners contributed questions and comments.
Author Eve LaPlante on the untold story of Louisa May Alcott and her mother, Abigail May Alcott, and on other important formative female figure’s in Louisa’s life.
Author Eve LaPlante discusses the relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her mother, Abigail—interviewed by Lisa Stepanski, Professor of English at Emmanuel College,
Louisa May Alcott’s father, the philosopher Bronson Alcott, devised his own approach to education, which he experiment with in a school he created and with his own family. At the Temple School, he worked with great female minds and innovators of the 19th century, including Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Includes excerpts from “Marmee and Louisa” by Eve LaPlante
Montage of images and quotes celebrating the 2012 anniversary of the first ten years of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
