Publisher's Synopsis
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.