Titlebook: Writers and Their Mothers; Dale Salwak Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Ian McEwan.Martin Amis.Margaret Drab

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Ambitious Daughter: Louisa May Alcott and Her Motheron of becoming a writer and produce the first classic girls’ book, based on her own “simple and true” experience (as she referred to it), with Marmee heroically at its center. In doing so, whatever critics may feel about the book, Louisa May Alcott secured a place in the canon of children’s literature.

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No Villainous Mother—The Life of Eva Larkin. On closer examination there is a strong case to be made for his mother, Eva, being by far the more significant influence over his life. Her voice has been hidden, but there to be heard, in the thousands of letters she wrote to her son and in other documentation lodged in the Larkin Archive. It is a story well worth telling.

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Mother Tongue: A Memoiruck there’s brass. It must have been in use in the 1930s, or 40s. I’ll use it. It’s right for the novel I’m finishing now. I’ll have it. Then I’ll always remember that she said it. I have a character just coming to life who can use her words. So thank you, Rose, for that—and all the rest.

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John Ruskin and Margaret in another, personal direction. It gave him confidence in one direction and took it away in another. It also caused an abnormal sensitivity in his case to the aesthetic aspects of life at the expense of other sources of satisfaction. This was both a loss and a gain—especially a gain for the world.

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Ambitious Daughter: Louisa May Alcott and Her Motherhusband and brother and “Marmee” to her four daughters; she enabled Louisa not only to break through gender barriers of the day, but pursue her ambition of becoming a writer and produce the first classic girls’ book, based on her own “simple and true” experience (as she referred to it), with Marmee

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