Eve LaPlante on Marmee & Louisa

Eve LaPlante on Marmee & Louisa

Author Eve LaPlante discusses the relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her mother, Abigail—interviewed by Lisa Stepanski, Professor of English at Emmanuel College,

Marmee & Louisa: Temple School

Marmee & Louisa: Temple School

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