Martha Saxton

Martha Saxton is an assistant professor of history and women's and gender studies at Amherst College. She is the author of several books, including Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography. She lives in New York City.
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Being Good
Martha Saxton
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hill and Wang
A pathbreaking new study of women and morality
How do people decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? How does a society set moral guidelines -- and what happens when the behavior...
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Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography
Martha Saxton
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A modern biography of an ambivalent rebel and irreverent feminist who became, in spite of herself, one of our most popular authors.
While most readers know her only from...
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The Widow Washington
Martha Saxton
Picador
Picador
An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father
The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington’s...
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