Stylish, outgoing, creative, May Alcott grows up longing to experience the wide world beyond Concord, Massachusetts. While her sister Louisa crafts stories, May herself is a talented and dedicated artist, taking lessons in Boston, turning down a marriage proposal from a well-off suitor, and facing scorn for entering what is very much a man's profession. Life for the Alcott family has never been easy, so when Louisa's Little Women is published, its...

Biography: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)--Transcendental idealist, philosopher, educator, lecturer, essayist, poet, reformer, and resident of Concord, Mass.--married Abigail May on May 23, 1830. Their children: Anna Bronson (born 1831); Louisa May (author; born 1832); Elizabeth Sewall (born 1835); a son (born and died 1839); and May (artist; born 1840). Anna Bronson Alcott married John Bridge Pratt in 1860. Their children: Frederic Alcott Pratt...