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Book Synopsis Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power by : Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under a pseudonym, this tale set in Victorian Britain follows the journey of the simple and sweet governess of the Coventry family, Jean Muir. But all is not as it seems, this sweet governess has a dark secret that might spell the end for the Coventry family. Like a sickness she will worm her way into the hearts of this family, and it will take everything for them not to crumble. It is a tale distinctly unlike anything like Alcott had published before, while still incorporating many larger discussions on social class and the struggle for agency. It is a book that has had a profound impact on feminist literature with its potent plot twists, Gothic imagery and perfectly crafted villain. It is one of Alcott’s masterpieces and perfect for anyone who loved 'Jane Eyre'. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an author, abolitionist and proud feminist. Her family suffered financially while she was growing up and so she was forced to take on multiple jobs in her youth to help provide for her family. Her writing became her outlet, forming her ideas and beliefs in the empowerment of women and people in to literature that reverberates to this day. Her most notable works include "Little Women", which is now a movie starring Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet, its sequel ‘Little Men’ and ‘An Old Fashioned Girl’.
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Download or read book Behind A Mask written by Louisa May Alcott and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-03-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind A Mask; or, A Woman's Power (1866) by L. M. Alcott, written under her pseudonym, A. M. Barnard, is the story of a woman, struggling to survive in a world dominated by men. Jean Muir, the central character of the story, performs various roles, as a governess, an actress, and an engaged woman, and is ready to lose some, or even all her integrity and identity, in order to achieve her goals. A tale of romance and betrayal, it also brings out the women's issues in the patriarchal and deceptive society.
Download or read book Behind a Mask written by A. M. Barnard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind A Mask - A Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott / A.M. Barnard. Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power is a novella written by American author Louisa May Alcott. The novella was originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym of A. M. Barnard in The Flag of Our Union. Set in the Coventry Mansion during the Victorian era, the wealthy family hires a young woman named Jean Muir to be the governess of sixteen-year-old Bella. When she first meets the Coventry family, Jean succeeds in charming Bella, Ned and Mrs. Coventry by having a fainting spell. However, Gerald and Lucia, son of the estate and cousin to the Coventry family, remain suspicious. They are skeptical with good reason, for when Jean retires to her own bedroom, she removes her costume (a wig and some fake teeth) to reveal that she is actually an actress of at least thirty years of age.
Book Synopsis Behind a Mask Or a Woman's Power by : A. Barnard
Download or read book Behind a Mask Or a Woman's Power written by A. Barnard and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind a Mask; or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott - Set in Victorian era Britain, the story follows Jean Muir, the deceitful governess of a rich Coventry family. With expert manipulation, Jean Muir obtains the love, respect, and eventually the wealth of the Coventry family.Any profits made from the sale of this book will go towards supporting the Freeriver Community project, a wonderful project that aims to support community and encourage well-being. To learn more about the Freeriver Community project please visit the website-www.freerivercommunity.com
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Download or read book Behind a Mask written by Louisa May Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power is a novella written by American author Louisa May Alcott. The novella was originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym of A. M. Barnard in The Flag of Our Union. Set in Victorian era Britain, the story follows Jean Muir, the deceitful governess of the wealthy Coventry family. With expert manipulation, Jean Muir obtains the love, respect, and eventually the fortune of the Coventry family.
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Book Synopsis Behind a Mask, Or a Woman's Power by : Louisa M. Louisa M. Alcott
Download or read book Behind a Mask, Or a Woman's Power written by Louisa M. Louisa M. Alcott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories under the nom de plume A. M. Barnard. Among these are Jean Muir, Pauline's Passion and Punishment. Her protagonists for these tales are willful and relentless in their pursuit of their own aims, which often include revenge on those who have humiliated or thwarted them. These tales marked the first in the series of "blood & thunder tales".
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Download or read book BEHIND A MASK OR A WOMAN'S POWER - A. M. Barnard written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1866, A. M. Barnard (Louisa May Alcott) published fiction novella Behind A Mask Or A Women's Power. The story follows Jean Muir, the deceitful governess of the wealthy Coventry family. We have formatted the book for an easy reading experience if you enjoy historic classic literary work.
Book Synopsis A Woman's Power (Unabridged) by : Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book A Woman's Power (Unabridged) written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "A Woman's Power (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The story follows Jean Muir, the deceitful governess of the wealthy Coventry family. With expert manipulation, Jean Muir obtains the love, respect, and eventually the fortune of the Coventry family. Of all her stories of femme fatales, Woman's Power or Behind a Mask is considered Alcott's masterpiece in the genre of sensation fiction. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the classic Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist. Content: Introduction: Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals Novel: Woman's Power (Behind a Mask)
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Download or read book A WOMAN'S POWER written by Louisa May Alcott and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story follows Jean Muir, the deceitful governess of the wealthy Coventry family. With expert manipulation, Jean Muir obtains the love, respect, and eventually the fortune of the Coventry family. Of all her stories of femme fatales, Woman's Power or Behind a Mask is considered Alcott's masterpiece in the genre of sensation fiction. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the classic Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist.
Book Synopsis Behind a Mask (Annotated) by : Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book Behind a Mask (Annotated) written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power is a novella written by American author Louisa May Alcott. The novella was originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym of A. M. Barnard in The Flag of Our Union. Set in Victorian era Britain, the story follows Jean Muir, the deceitful governess of the wealthy Coventry family. With expert manipulation, Jean Muir obtains the love, respect, and eventually the fortune of the Coventry family. Since it was republished by Madeleine B. Stern in 1975, the novel has become important in critical reinterpretation of Alcott's corpus of works and literary importance. Many literary critics treat the novel; for example, one critic treated the novel as a version of the "Beauty and the Beast" trope, while others provide feminist critiques of the narrative. Alcott's treatment of themes like acting, social class, and the struggle for agency all inform these larger discussions by critics.
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Download or read book BEHIND A MASK; OR, A WOMAN'S POWER "Annotated" Historical Fiction written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally posted underneath the pen call A.M. Barnard in 1866, Behind a Mask breathed new lifestyles into the important consideration of the career of its author whilst republished below her real name extra than a century later. The 1975 re-issue kickstarted a wholesale re-evaluation of Louisa May Alcott that ultimately led to an enormously acclaimed theatrical variation of her most well-known work Little Women within the 1990's and culminated in the semi-professional recognition of artistic well worth that incorporates being the challenge of an episode of the PBS series American Masters in 2009.Behind a Mask changed into posted in novella form as a part of the quantity The Flag of Our Union at first an it's tale of a manipulative governess who manages to insinuate her way into the coolest fortunes of a wealthy own family despite her deceit and scheming seemed as far faraway from the cherished tales of the March sisters as one could get as a woman writer on the time. But then, Behind a Mask was not at once apparent as the work of a woman creator if all one needed to make this type of judgment became a pair of initials.How a good deal differently might a reader familiar with Little Women have felt closer to the protagonist of a tale hiding at the back of a psychological masks that allowed evil not handiest to go unpunished, however be rewarded in the event that they knew that the ones preliminary of Mr. Or Miss Barnard have been also a mask at the back of which Louisa May Alcott turned into hiding? That is a solution that should stay a thriller, however what is known for positive is that the unmasking of the actual identification of A.M. Barnard inside the put up-feminist 1970's grew to become out to be not anything brief of a very good aspect for the legacy of the bold writer of Behind a Mask.
Book Synopsis Behind a Mask Or, a Woman's Power (1866) Novel by by : Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book Behind a Mask Or, a Woman's Power (1866) Novel by written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power is a novella written by American author Louisa May Alcott. The novella was originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym of A. M. Barnard in The Flag of Our Union. Set in Victorian era Britain, the story follows Jean Muir, the deceitful governess of the wealthy Coventry family. With expert manipulation, Jean Muir obtains the love, respect, and eventually the fortune of the Coventry family. Since it was republished by Madeleine B. Stern in 1975, the novel has become important in critical reinterpretation of Alcott's corpus of works and literary importance. Many literary critics treat the novel; for example, one critic treated the novel as a version of the "Beauty and the Beast" trope, while others provide feminist critiques of the narrative. Alcott's treatment of themes like acting, social class, and the struggle for agency all inform these larger discussions by critics.
Book Synopsis Behind a Mask Or, a Woman's Power by : Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book Behind a Mask Or, a Woman's Power written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Victorian era Britain, the story follows Jean Muir, the deceitful governess of the wealthy Coventry family. With expert manipulation, Jean Muir obtains the love, respect, and eventually the fortune of the Coventry family. Since it was republished by Madeleine B. Stern in 1975, the novel has become important in critical reinterpretation of Alcott's corpus of works and literary importance. Many literary critics treat the novel; for example, one critic treated the novel as a version of the "Beauty and the Beast" trope, while others provide feminist critiques of the narrative.
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Download or read book Behind a Mask Or, a Woman's Power (1866). By: Louisa May Alcott written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power is a novella written by American author Louisa May Alcott. The novella was originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym of A. M. Barnard in The Flag of Our Union. Set in Victorian era Britain, the story follows Jean Muir, the deceitful governess of the wealthy Coventry family. With expert manipulation, Jean Muir obtains the love, respect, and eventually the fortune of the Coventry family. Since it was republished by Madeleine B. Stern in 1975, the novel has become important in critical reinterpretation of Alcott's corpus of works and literary importance. Many literary critics treat the novel; for example, one critic treated the novel as a version of the "Beauty and the Beast" trope, while others provide feminist critiques of the narrative. Alcott's treatment of themes like acting, social class, and the struggle for agency all inform these larger discussions by critics. PLOT: Set in the Coventry Mansion during the Victorian era, the wealthy family hires a young woman named Jean Muir to be the governess of sixteen-year-old Bella. When she first meets the Coventry family, Jean succeeds in charming Bella, Ned and Mrs. Coventry by having a fainting spell. However, Gerald and Lucia, son of the estate and cousin to the Coventry family, remain suspicious. They are skeptical with good reason, for when Jean retires to her own bedroom, she removes her costume (a wig and some fake teeth) to reveal that she is actually an actress of at least thirty years of age. Acting the part of a harmless governess, Jean slowly but surely weasels her way into the hearts of the Coventry family. Eventually, all the male characters fall in love with her: first Ned, the youngest, followed by the skeptic Gerald, and gradually the unassuming uncle, John. She uses the love they bestow upon her to turn them against each other and eventually to secure the Coventry estate for herself. By the end of the story, Jean Muir has married John to become Lady Coventry....................... Louisa May Alcott ( November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Alcott's family suffered financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults that focused on spies, revenge, and cross dressers.Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, filmed several times.Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died from a stroke, two days after her father died, in Boston on March 6, 1888. Early life: Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, which is now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on her father's 33rd birthday. She was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest; Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest. The family moved to Boston in 1834, where Alcott's father established an experimental school and joined the Transcendental Club with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau....
Book Synopsis Behind A Mask Or A Woman’s Power by : Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book Behind A Mask Or A Woman’s Power written by Louisa May Alcott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power" is a novella written by way of Louisa May Alcott, exceptional recognised for her conventional novel "Little Women." Originally published in 1866 underneath the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, this gripping narrative explores the complexities of human nature and the societal expectations positioned on ladies in the nineteenth century. The story revolves round Jean Muir, a mysterious and captivating governess, who enters the rich Coventry circle of relatives's family. Jean's beauty and foxy intelligence right away entice the eye of the circle of relative’s members, every of whom will become entangled in her web of manipulation. As the plot unfolds, Jean's real motives and past are gradually found out, exposing the volume of her strategic prowess and the strength dynamics at play within the Coventry domestic. "Behind a Mask" delves into topics of deception, societal constraints, and the evolving roles of women in a male-dominated society. Alcott masterfully crafts a tale that challenges traditional gender norms, providing a nuanced exploration of the methods wherein ladies navigated power dynamics in the course of the Victorian generation. The novella stands as a testament to Alcott's literary versatility, showcasing her ability to delve into darker and more complicated issues past the acquainted territory of her extra broadly recognized works.
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Download or read book Behind a Mask written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Has she come?""No, Mamma, not yet.""I wish it were well over. The thought of it worries and excites me. A cushion for my back, Bella."And poor, peevish Mrs. Coventry sank into an easy chair with a nervous sigh and the air of a martyr, while her pretty daughter hovered about her with affectionate solicitude."Who are they talking of, Lucia?" asked the languid young man lounging on a couch near his cousin, who bent over her tapestry work with a happy smile on her usually haughty face."The new governess, Miss Muir. Shall I tell you about her?""No, thank you. I have an inveterate aversion to the whole tribe. I've often thanked heaven that I had but one sister, and she a spoiled child, so that I have escaped the infliction of a governess so long.""How will you bear it now?" asked Lucia."Leave the house while she is in it."
Book Synopsis Behind A Mask by : Louisa May Alcott
Download or read book Behind A Mask written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though best known for the lighthearted look at family life and sisterly relationships in Little Women, some of Louisa May Alcott's work touched on more socially significant themes. Behind a Mask, Or a Woman's Power is one of several works that Alcott penned under a pseudonym. Perhaps freed by the anonymity this guise granted, she delves deeply into issues of gender, family, and social class in this story that focuses on the relationship between a governess and the family she works for.
