Author:Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)

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American novelist; best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys; occasionally used the pseudonym A. M. Barnard.

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Louisa May Alcott

Works

• The Inheritance (1849, unpublished until 1997)
• Flower Fables (1855)
• Hospital Sketches (1863)
• The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864)
• Moods (1865; rev. ed. 1882) (transcription project)
• Morning-Glories and Other Stories (1867)
• The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867)
• Three Proverb Stories (1868)
• Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868)
  • Part I: (transcription project)
  • Part II: (transcription project) [UK title: Good Wives]
• An Old Fashioned Girl (1870)
• Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
• Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872-1882)
  • Volume 1: (transcription project)
  • Volume 2: (transcription project)
  • Volume 3: (transcription project)
  • Volume 4: (transcription project)
  • Volume 5: (transcription project)
  • Volume 6: (transcription project)
• Transcendental Wild Oats (1873)
• 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) (transcription project)
• A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
• Under the Lilacs (1877)
• 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 (1893) (transcription project)
  • A Garland for Girls (1905) (transcription project) (Missing one illus. plate)
• Comic Tragedies Written by "Jo" and "Meg" and Acted by the "Little Women," (1893)
• Good Wives (transcription project)
• Pauline's Passion and Punishment
• Silk Stockings

As "A.M. Barnard"

The following works were published using the pseudonym A. M. Barnard.

• Behind A Mask or, A Woman's Power (1866)
• A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866 – first published 1995)
• The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (1867)

Short stories

• On Picket Duty and Other Tales
• 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

• "Thoreau's Flute" (Sep 1863—first publ. 1950), an elegy for Thoreau (External scan)
• "Our Little Ghost" (1875)
• "A Christmas Song"

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,” in 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,” in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• “Alcott, Louisa May,” in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• “Alcott, Louisa May,” in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• “Louisa May Alcott,” in A Woman of the Century, (ed.) by Frances Elizabeth Willard and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton (1893)

Obituaries

• Louisa M. Alcott Dead in New York Times