Behind a Mask or A Woman's Power Author:Louisa May Alcott "One first rate thriller....'Behind a Mask' is by far the better way to become with acquainted with Alcott's racier side.... Governess Jean Muir, the anti-heroine, gradually transmutes from a demure mouse to a vengeful femme fatale, and along the way, deliberately sets out to enslave every male member of the arrogant Coventry family. Reading thi... more »s story, one can't help but think that Alcott was lampooning Jane Eyre and the supposedly 'artless' way in which plain Jane lands Mr. Moneybags Rochester. In contrast, Alcott's Jean is a weird woman warrior, ready to flatter, connive and destroy in order to get what she wants. If they ever make a movie of 'Behind a Mask,' forget Winona Ryder, this Alcott heroine calls for the likes of Leona Helmsley." -The Washington Post American novelist Louisa May Alcott best known for her novel "Little Women" and its follow up sequels "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys". She based the characters in her novel on herself and her family. Where her heroin Jo was based on herself she never married. Growing up among many well know intellectuals of the day like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau she started writing for Atlantic Monthly. Serving as a nurse during the civil war her letters home became one of her less famous books "Hospital Sketches."« less