num_pages: 235
description: The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family , Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own. The family’s run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life. Mary Emma &amp; Company continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado with Little Britches and runs through Man of the Family and The Home Ranch . All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as has The Fields of Home , in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather's farm in Maine.
language: English
title: Mary Emma & Company
titlecomplete: Mary Emma & Company (Little Britches, #4)
genres: Historical, Audiobook, History, Childrens, Classics, Autobiography, Memoir, Westerns, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1781
series: Little Britches
publisher: Bison Books