Little Woman in Blue

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>May Alcott spends her days sewing blue shirts for Union soldiers but she dreams of painting a masterpiece-which many say is impossible for a woman-and of finding love too. When she reads her sister's wildly popular novel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Little Women</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> she is stung by Louisa's portrayal of her as Amy the youngest of four sisters who trades her desire to succeed as an artist for the joys of hearth and home. Determined to prove her talent May makes plans to move far from Massachusetts and make a life for herself with room for both watercolors and a wedding dress. Can she succeed? And if she does what price will she have to pay? Based on May Alcott's letters and diaries as well as memoirs written by her neighbors </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Little Woman in Blue</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> puts May at the center of the story she might have told about sisterhood and rivalry in an extraordinary family.</span></p>