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Louisa May: A modern biography of Louisa May Alcott

Biographies & Memoirs

SAXTON, Martha

Arts & Literature

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Now in a new edition from Bedford/St. Martin€™s, Interpretations of American History offers an essential collection of essays and readings on American historiography. Each chapter opens with an extended essay that explores the historiography specific to that chapter€™s topic, followed by two readings by preeminent historians that highlight different €” although not always diametrically opposed €” historical approaches. Fully updated for the next generation of scholars, the most respected historiographical reader now comes with all the care and quality that you expect from Bedford/St. Martin€™s.

Interpretations of American History: Patterns & Perspectives: Through Reconstruction: 1

History

Grob, Gerald N.

Billias, George Athan

Couvares, Francis G.

Americas

Bedford/St.Martin's

Interpretations of American History: Patterns & Perspectives: Since Reconstruction: 2

A pathbreaking new study of women and morality How do people decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? How does a society set moral guidelines -- and what happens when the behavior of various groups differs from these guidelines? Martha Saxton tackles these and other fascinating issues in Being Good, her history of the moral values prescribed for women in early America. Saxton begins by examining seventeenth-century Boston, then moves on to eighteenth-century Virginia and nineteenth-century St. Louis. Studying women throughout the life cycle -- girls, young unmarried women, young wives and mothers, older widows -- through their diaries and personal papers, she also studies the variations due to different ethnicities and backgrounds. In all three cases, she is able to show how the values of one group conflicted with or developed in opposition to those of another. And, as the women's testimonies make clear, the emotional styles associated with different value systems varied. A history of American women's moral life thus gives us a history of women's emotional life as well. In lively and penetrating prose, Saxton argues that women's morals changed from the days of early colonization to the days of westward expansion, as women became at once less confined and less revered by their men -- and explores how these changes both reflected and affected trends in the nation at large.

Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America

Hill and Wang

Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography

Traces the life and career of the nineteenth-century American novelist, and discusses the influence of her life on her writings

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A modern biography of an ambivalent rebel and irreverent feminist who became, in spite of herself, one of our most popular authors.
While most readers know her only from her beloved classic Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys, her journey to become one of American's best known authors was full of twists and turns. Daughter of a prominent educator, her early life was filled with encounters with such notables and Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other prominent intellectuals of the day. But her rise to literary fame marred by poverty and war, and hindered by her unconventional ideas about slavery, women's rights and politics.
Author Martha Saxton shows how her transendentalist father, activist mother, and three sisters not only influenced her world view, but became the basis for stories of the March family, beloved the world over.

Louisa May

Avon/Books

Jayne Mansfield and the American fifties

Jayne Mansfield and the American fifties

Houghton/Mifflin

Louisa May: A Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

A pathbreaking new study of women and morality
How do people decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? How does a society set moral guidelines -- and what happens when the behavior of various groups differs from these guidelines? Martha Saxton tackles these and other fascinating issues in Being Good, her history of the moral values prescribed for women in early America. 
Saxton begins by examining seventeenth-century Boston, then moves on to eighteenth-century Virginia and nineteenth-century St. Louis. Studying women throughout the life cycle -- girls, young unmarried women, young wives and mothers, older widows -- through their diaries and personal papers, she also studies the variations due to different ethnicities and backgrounds. In all three cases, she is able to show how the values of one group conflicted with or developed in opposition to those of another. And, as the women's testimonies make clear, the emotional styles associated with different value systems varied. A history of American women's moral life thus gives us a history of women's emotional life as well. 
In lively and penetrating prose, Saxton argues that women's morals changed from the days of early colonization to the days of westward expansion, as women became at once less confined and less revered by their men -- and explores how these changes both reflected and affected trends in the nation at large.

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Louisa May: A modern biography of Louisa May Alcott

Interpretations of American History: Patterns & Perspectives: Through Reconstruction: 1

Interpretations of American History: Patterns & Perspectives: Since Reconstruction: 2

Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America

Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography

Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography

Louisa May

Jayne Mansfield and the American fifties

Louisa May: A Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott

Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America