Author:Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)

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Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

She 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• The Inheritance (1849, unpublished until 1997)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)
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  • 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 (1893)

Obituaries

• Louisa M. Alcott Dead in New York Times