About marriage, Abba even says to Louisa: And, as much as Louisa craves her father's approval, he is a terrible example of what a husband and father should be. But mostly Louisa is upset with Anna because she cannot imagine a future as a wife and can't believe that Anna would want to live the same kind of life as their mother. Younger sister Lizzie never fully recovered from small pox and isn't able to do much of the household work and youngest sister May is frivolous and manages to avoid it. But when her oldest sister, Anna, confides that she is hoping to find a husband in Walpole, Louisa begins to doubt that she will be able to leave her mother. And it is here that McNees begins her story, blending the well-documented lives of the Alcotts with fiction.Īs soon as they arrive, Louisa, already in her twenties, is making plans in her head to return to Boston to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. When the girls were all young women, they moved to Walpole, thanks to a family member who offered them free lodging. The burden of keeping the family feed and sheltered fell squarely on the shoulders of Louisa's mother, Abigail, known as Abba, and their four daughters. His philosophies kept his family in extreme poverty because he would not take a job. Her father, Bronson, was a transcendentalist and a free thinker. Louisa May Alcott, who wrote one of the most beloved stories of all time, "Little Women", grew up in a much different household than the one she painted in the classic.
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