Memoirs of a New England Lass is an eclectic collection of memoirs about growing up in New England in the 1950s through the early 1970s. From nature walks at an early age with her father to her first day of teaching high school English at the age of twenty-one, the author reflects on her true life experiences. You may laugh, or you may cry at the life lessons the author learns in the varied situations in which she finds herself. The section entitled Questions to Ponder at the end of each selection provides readers with an opportunity to think back on their lives and encourages them to compose their own life stories.

Memoirs of a New England Lass is an eclectic collection of memoirs about growing up in New England in the 1950s through the early 1970s. From nature walks at an early age with her father to her first day of teaching high school English at the age of twenty-one, the author reflects on her true life experiences. You may laugh, or you may cry at the life lessons the author learns in the varied situations in which she finds herself. The section entitled Questions to Ponder at the end of each selection provides readers with an opportunity to think back on their lives and encourages them to compose their own life stories.

A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.

This lyrical book by an American teacher, poet, and author Lucy Larcom, was aimed at girls of all ages and women wishing to refresh the memories of their girlhood. It shares the sentiments of the author's childhood in old good New England, the land described as full of romantic lightness and homely comfort.

Mountain Ash has a double meaning. It stands for my grandmothers mountain ash tree in our yard and how she gave me the title of this book. It also stands for my breakthrough-of-consciousness experience when I was thirty-seven when I rose from the ashes of a dark period in my mountain home.

A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture—class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate—through the lens of mothers and daughters. At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too-perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her own. Whether to defy the previous generation or finally earn their approval and enter their ranks, she hurled herself into upper-crust domesticity full throttle. In the twenty years Stuart spent back in her hometown—in a series of ever more magnificent houses in ever grander neighborhoods—she was forced to connect with the cultural tradition of guilt and flawed parenting of a long legacy of local, literary women from Emerson’s wife, to Hawthorne’s, to the most famous and imposing of them all, Louisa May Alcott’s iconic, guilt-tripping Marmee. When Stuart’s own mother dies, she realizes that there is no one left to approve or disapprove. And so, with her suddenly grown children fleeing as she herself once did, Stuart leaves her hometown for the final time, bidding good-bye to the cozy ideals invented for her by Louisa May Alcott so many years ago, which may or may not ever have been based in reality.