Alcott married Abby May in 1830 and they eventually had four surviving children, all daughters.

Abby May Alcott in her later years

Alcott had been influenced by educational philosophy of the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and even renamed his school " The Cheshire Pestalozzi School ". His style attracted the attention of Samuel Joseph May, who introduced Alcott to his sister Abby May.

Abby May applied as his teaching assistant ; instead, the couple were engaged, without consent of the family.

" We hardly earn the bread ", wrote Abby May to her brother, " the butter we have to think about.

On July 26, 1840, Abby May gave birth again.

Originally referred to as Baby for several months, she was eventually named Abby May after her mother.

Abby May described her idea: " I thought it would afford a daily opportunity for the children, indeed all of us, to interchange thought and sentiment ".

Other than Abby May and her daughters, only one other woman joined, Ann Page.

Abby May thought Lane purposely sabotaged her family.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

At one point, Abby May threatened that she and their daughters would move elsewhere, leaving Bronson behind.

On May 23, 1845, Abby May was granted a sum from her father's estate which was put into a trust fund, granting minor financial security.

In 1848, Abby May insisted they leave Concord, which she called " cold, heartless, brainless, soulless ".

After the death of his wife Abby May on November 25, 1877, Alcott never returned to Orchard House, too heartbroken to live there.

* Amos Bronson Alcott marries Abby May.

Lake also jointly wrote a book on the world of natural childbirth and birthing options, along with Abby Epstein and Jacques Moritz, Your Best Birth, which was published by Wellness Central on May 1, 2009.

She was named after her mother, Abigail May, and first called Abba, then Abby, and finally May, which she asked to be called in November 1863 when in her twenties.

* 2005 Southwest Ridge-summit attained by Kevin Thaw, Conrad Anker, Kris Erickson, John Griber and Abby Watkins on May 12, 2005.

Monica C. Keena ( born May 25, 1979 ) is an American actress, known for her roles as Abby Morgan on Dawson's Creek, Rachel Lindquist on the short-lived comedy Undeclared, Kristin on HBO's Entourage, and as Lori Campbell in Freddy vs. Jason.

* Abby Rockefeller Mauzé ( November 9, 1903 – May 27, 1976 )

As Abby wrote, his death " has prostrated all our hopes here.

Abby Mann wrote the role of Judge Haywood with Tracy in mind ; Tracy called it the best script he had ever read.

As biographer Abby Slater wrote, " Margaret had been demoted from a position of importance in her own right to one in which her only importance was in the company she kept ".

It also featured such colorful columnists as Pauline Phillips, who wrote under the name " Dear Abby ," " Count Marco " ( Marc Spinelli ), Stanton Delaplane, Terence O ' Flaherty, Lucius Beebe, Art Hoppe, Charles McCabe, and Herb Caen.

Westfeldt wrote, produced, and starred in Ira and Abby, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2006.

In Gargantua and Pantagruel ( 1532 – 52 ), François Rabelais wrote of the Abby of Thelema ( Greek word meaning " will " or " wish "), an imaginary utopia whose motto was " Do as Thou Will.

In 2001, she wrote to advice columnist Dear Abby to decry the loud background music used on television programs.

In a humorous epilogue prior to the credits, the following is revealed: Verena goes on to publish Moi, one of the most-read women's publications in the world ; Odette becomes a congresswoman and declares war on the tobacco industry ; Momo is a scientist developing the first male oral contraceptive ; Tinka, a famous actress, ironically comes out to Barbara Walters in a 1997 interview ; Tweety became a psychologist and wrote a best-seller about bulimia ; Abby, a radical political activist, is serving a prison sentence for a 1970 bank holdup ; and Miss Godard's is still a girls school.

" I feel almost sure ," Remond wrote to Abby, " I never should have made the attempt but for the words of encouragement I received from you.

In 1984, When Van Buren sent a gift to " Dear Abby " columnist Abigail Van Buren ( Pauline Phillips ), she wrote back on November 30, 1984, thanking him and commenting on the name similarity:

* Letters In Cardboard Boxes ( 2011 ) by Abby Slovin is written as a narrative alongside a series of letters exchanged between an eccentric grandmother and her granddaughter as the protagonist experiences loss.

She had to back out of the role of Abby McDeere in The Firm ( 1993 ), with Tom Cruise, upon discovering that she was pregnant with her second child ( son Hopper Penn ).

The dish is featured in the 2008 comedy The Ramen Girl starring Brittany Murphy as Abby, an American woman stuck in Tokyo after her boyfriend leaves her.

Even though she was chronologically 11-12, the series had Tefe aged into the body of an 18-year-old with a mindwipe orchestrated by Swamp Thing, Constantine and Abby in order to try to control her darker impulses, brought about by her exposure to the Parliament of Trees.

By 2002, when Phillips suffered from the onset of Alzheimer ’ s disease, her daughter Jeanne had assumed all the writing responsibilities of Dear Abby.

Farrand commuted cross-country by train for her eastern projects, such as the design and supervision of the Chinese inspired garden at ' The Eyrie ' for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller on Mount Desert Island in Seal Harbor, Maine ( 1926 – 35 ).

Two of the nation ’ s most radical abolitionists, Abby Kelley Foster and her husband Stephen S. Foster, adopted Worcester as their home, as did Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the editor of The Atlantic Monthly and Emily Dickinson's avuncular correspondent, and Unitarian minister Rev.

On July 2, 46-year-old Stephen Tyler was shot and killed in his appliance and furniture store ; his teenage daughter, Abby, was critically wounded ; she died of her injuries two days later.

There, she met with eight other women including Harriot Kezia Hunt, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, and her close friend Abby Kelley Foster, as well as her compatriots and employers Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, to plan a national convention focusing on women's rights.

* Pauley Perrette Actor, Singer ; best known for her role as Abby Scuito on NCIS

In the NCIS Season 7 episode " Power Down ", Forensic Tech Abby Sciuto uses lemons to power her stereo.

Abby Wambach, meanwhile, was recovering from a broken leg and didn't feel fully recovered until late in the season, when she returned from national team duty having scored her 100th international goal.

A similar recipe appears in 1881 in a book by Abby Fisher, the first Black American woman and a former slave from Mobile, Alabama, who recorded her recipes in a cookbook called What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, Soups, Pickles, Preserves, Etc.

Sarah Jane's brother was Franklin Steele, a prominent Minneapolis businessman, and her sister Anna Abby Steele married Dr. Thomas R. Potts, who later became the first mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota.