Author:Louisa May Alcott

←Author Index: Al

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. Daughter of the Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Louisa May Alcott

Works

• Flower Fables (1855)
• Hospital Sketches (1863)
• The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864)
• Moods (1865: rev. ed. 1882)
• Behind A Mask or, A Woman's Power (1866)
• Morning-Glories and Other Stories (1867) [1]
• The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867) [2]
• Three Proverb Stories (includes "Kitty's Class Day," "Aunt Kipp," and "Psyche's Art") (1868) [3]
• Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868)
• An Old Fashioned Girl (1870) [4]
• Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
• Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872-1882)
• Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
• Beginning Again, Being a Continuation of "Work," (1875)
• Eight Cousins; or, The Aunt-Hill (1875)
• Silver Pitchers, and Independence: A Centennial Love Story (1876)
• Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins," 1876) [5]
• A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
• Under the Lilacs (1877) [6]
• Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)
• The Candy Country (1885)
• Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men," (1886)
• Lulu's Library (1886-1889)
• A Garland for Girls (1888)
• Comic Tragedies Written by "Jo" and "Meg" and Acted by the "Little Women," (1893)
• Good Wives
• An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
• Pauline's Passion and Punishment
• Silk Stockings

Short stories

• On Picket Duty and Other Tales [7]
• The Brothers
• Debby's Debut
• Marjorie's Three Gifts
• A Modern Cinderella, or The Little Old Shoe
• Nelly's Hospital
• Scarlet Stockings
• Street Scenes in Washington

Poetry

• Our Little Ghost (1875)

Works about Alcott

• “Alcott, Amos Bronson” in The American Cyclopædia, 1879. Louisa May is discussed at the end of this article about her father.
• “Alcott, Amos Bronson,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900. Louisa May is discussed at the end of this article about her father.
• “Alcott, Louisa May,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Alcott, Louisa M.” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Alcott, Louisa May” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Alcott, Louisa May,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Alcott, Louisa May” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Alcott, Louisa May,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

Obituaries

• Louisa M. Alcott Dead in New York Times

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.