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Louisa May Alcott
[1832-1888]
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"She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain."
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship." - in "Little Women" [1868]
"It is amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them."
"Be worthy, love, and love will come."
— Louisa May Alcott
"My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo,
who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer." — J.K. Rowling
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she was the first woman registered to vote in Concord
LMA sailed twice to Europe, the first trip was from July 1865 to July 1866; she went as the hired companion to an invalid named Anna Weld; that trip included stops at many spas, in England, Belgium, Germany, SW (Vevy) & France; Louisa parted from Weld in Nice and proceeded alone to Paris, where she saw the sites with Wisniewski, then ended her stay in London.
The second trip was from April 1870 to June 1871; that trip was as the successful author of LW and AOFGirl, in the company of her sister May Alcott and friend Alice Bartlett; it began in Brittany and continued in SW; to avoid the Franco-Prussian War, the ladies traveled thru Italy; Louisa wrote "Little Men" while in Rome.
Louisa May Alcott entry at Wikipedia
browse books at Louisa May Alcott Store {returns 480+ items} at Amazon
Louisa May Alcott credits {50+ items since 1917} at Internet Movie Database
Louisa May Alcott credits at Internet Broadway Database
The "Little Women" Trilogy
8/2018 article "How Little Women Got Big" by Joan Acocella in The New Yorker Magazine
"Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy" [1868 & 1869]
The second part of Little Women, also known as "Good Wives", was published in 1869, and afterward usually published together with Little Women.
"Little Women" b&w sound feature [Nov 1933]
Directed by George Cukor; starring
Katharine Hepburn,
Joan Bennett,
Jean Parker,
Frances Dee,
Paul Lukas,
Edna May Oliver,
Douglass Montgomery,
Spring Byington
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024264/
"Little Women" color feature [April 1949]
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy; starring
June Allyson,
Peter Lawford,
Margaret O'Brien,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Janet Leigh,
Mary Astor,
Rossano Brazzi
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041594/
"Little Women" [2018?]
Announced 4/2017: Lea Thompson signed on to star as Marmee in a modern adaptation of Louise May Alcott's classic 1868 novel
"Little Women"; co-written & directed by Clare Niederpruem; co-written by Kristi Shimek •
full credits at IMDb •
official movie website
"Little Women" [Sony/Columbia Dec 2019] 
 | The eighth film version of Alcott's 1868 novel; story as adapted by writer-director Greta Gerwig focuses on their adult lives, with flashbacks • Co-produced by Denise Di Novi, Arnon Milchan, Amy Pascal, and others; music by Alexandre Desplat; starring Saoirse Ronan {as Jo March}, Emma Watson {as Meg March}, Florence Pugh {as Amy March}, Eliza Scanlen {as Beth March}, Laura Dern {as Marmee March}, Meryl Streep {as Aunt March}, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, Chris Cooper, Jayne Houdyshell, Mason Alban, Rafael Silva, Emily Edström, Maryann Plunkett, Hadley Robinson, Lonnie Farmer, Charlotte Kinder, Ana Kayne, Edgar Damatian, Erin Rose, Lizzie Short, Dash Barber, Edward Fletcher, Sasha Frolova, David J. Curtis, Harper Pilat, Eowyn Young, Lucy Austin, Bill Mootos, Lewis D. Wheeler, Jen Nikolaisen, Jonathon Acorn, Abby Quinn, Lilly Englert, J.M. Davis, Tom Kemp, Daniel Shea, Anthony Estrella, Adrianne Krstansky, Sophia Gialloreto, Lily Gavin, Finola Weller Baldet; winner AFI Awards Movie of the Year, 2020
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch 8/2019 official trailer [2:43] at YouTube watch 12/2019 "Little Women Cast Live Q&A with People TV" [37:36] at YouTube |
"Little Men: Life At Plumfield With Jo's Boys" [1871] - written while in Rome, Italy
"Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel To Little Men" [1886]
 | "Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys" [2005] Edited by Elaine Showalter Kindle Edition from Library of America/Penguin Random House [2/2005] for $19.99 Library of America 8x5 hardcover [2/2005] for $31.11 |
 | "The Essential Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, and Jo’s Boys (Illustrated)" [2017] Introduction by Nicholas Tamblyn, Illustrated by Katherine Eglund Kindle Edition from Golding Books [11/2017] for $1.99 Golding Books 9x6 pb [11/2017] for $16.97 |
Other Novels
"Louisa May Alcott: The Contemporary Reviews" [Cambridge Univ Press, 2004] by Beverly Lyon Clark ISBN 978-0521827805
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"The Inheritance" [written in 1849, unpublished until 1997]
"Moods" [1865, revised 1882]
"An Old Fashioned Girl" [1870]
"Work: A Story of Experience" [1873]
"Beginning Again, Being A Continuation of Work" [1875]
"Eight Cousins: or, The Aunt-Hill" [1875]
"Rose In Bloom: A Sequel To Eight Cousins" [1876]
"A Modern Mephistopheles" [1877] {as Anonymous}
"Under The Lilacs" [1878]
"Jack and Jill: A Village Story" [1880]
Short Fiction
 | "Short Stories" [1996] by Louisa May Alcott contains: "Obtaining Supplies", "A Night" {both from "Hospital Sketches"}, "My Contraband", "Happy Women" and "How I Went Out To Service" Kindle Edition from Dover Publns [4/2012] for $1.33 Dover Thrift Editions 8½x5½ pb [6/2010] for $1.40 Dover Thrift Editions 8¼x5 pb [1996] for $3.00 |
"The Rival Painters: A Tale of Rome" first published story [1852]
"Flower Fables" first published book [1854]
"Thoreau's Flute" [1863]
"Hospital Sketches" [1863]
"On Picket Duty, and Other Tales" [1864]
"Morning-Glories and Other Stories" [1867]
eight fantasy stories and four poems for children, including: A Strange Island (1868); The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864), A Christmas Song,
Morning Glories, Shadow-Children, Poppy's Pranks, What The Swallows Did, Little Gulliver, The Whale's Story, Goldfin and Silvertail
"Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories" [1868] includes "Kitty's Class Day", "Aunt Kipp", and "Psyche's Art"
"Perilous Play" short story [1869]
"Lost In A Pyramid: or, The Mummy's Curse" short story [first published by Frank Leslie in 1869]
"Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag" 66 short stories in six volumes [1872–1882]
1. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag + 2. Shawl-Straps + 3. Cupid and Chow-Chow + 4. My Girls, Etc.
5. Jimmy's Cruise In The Pinafore, Etc. + 6. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.
"Transcendental Wild Oats" short story [1873]
about the Alcott family and the Transcendentalism Movement
"Silver Pitchers and Independence: A Centennial Love Story" [1876]
"Spinning-Wheel Stories" [1884] a collection of 12 short stories
"The Candy Country" short story [1885]
"Lulu's Library" [1886-1889] a collection of 32 short stories in three volumes
"May Flowers" short story [1887]
"Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair" short story [1887]
"A Garland For Girls" (1888] a collection of eight short stories.
 | "Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury" [2002] Edited by Stephen W. Hines, Illustrated by C. Michael Dudash ten stories & novellas in 282 pages, including "A Country Christmas", "Bertie's Box", "The Christmas Turkey", "Hospital Christmas", "Kate's Choice", "Mrs. Podger's Teapot", "The Quiet Little Woman", "What Love Can Do", and two more David C. Cook 8¾x5¾ hardcover [6/2002] out of print/used |
 | "The Brownie and The Princess and Other Stories" [2004] by Louisa May Alcott
A collection of ten short stories for children ages 8-12 years: The Brownie and The Princess; Tabby's Tablecloth; A Hole In The Wall; Lunch; Baa! Baa!; The Silver Party; How They Camped Out; The Hare and The Tortoise; Jerseys, or The Girls' Ghost; and The Cooking Class HarperCollins 8x5½ hardcover [2/2004] for $28.95 HarperCollins 8x5½ library hardcover [2/2004] out of print/used |
 | "The Christmas Stories of Louisa May Alcott" [2014]
Amazon.com page count unreliable; includes: "Merry Christmas" (poem), "A Christmas Dream", "A Country Christmas", "The Abbot's Ghost", "A Christmas Story" (8 chapters), "Becky's Christmas Dream", "Tilly's Christmas", "Rosa's Tale", and "What The Bells Saw and Said" Kindle Edition from Miniature Masterpieces [10/2014] for $4.99 Miniature Masterpieces 9x6 pb [11/2014] for $12.99 |
 | "The Christmas Stories of Louisa May Alcott" for Kindle [2018]
Kindle Edition from Dreamscape Media [10/2018] for $4.49 {more complete} collection of 16 stories and three poems, including: "The Quiet Little Woman"; "A Hospital Christmas"; "What Polly Found In Her Stocking"; "Rosa's Tale"; "Mrs. Podgers' Teapot"; "Peace From Heaven"; "A Country Christmas"; "Gwen's Adventure In The Snow"; "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True"; "A Song"; "A Merry Christmas"; "What Love Can Do"; "Tessa's Surprises"; "A Christmas Turkey"; "Becky's Christmas Dream"; "Kate's Choice"; "Bertie's Box"; "A New Way To Spend Christmas"; and "Tilly's Christmas" |
Alcott's 'Sensation Stories' Thrillers
29 spellbinding tales of intrigue and suspense, violence and evil, jealousy and revenge that were originally published by Louisa May Alcott under various pseudonyms between 1862 and 1870; they were uncovered by the detective work of Madeleine Stern and others, who scrutinized published and unpublished sources for clues to Alcott's secret literary life.
"Behind A Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott" [1975] Edited & with Introduction by Madeleine B. Stern
introduces four Alcott thrillers: "Pauline's Passion and Punishment" (1862), title story "Behind A Mask" (1866), "The Mysterious Key" (1867), and "The Abbot's Ghost" (1867)
http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Mask-Thrillers-Louisa-Alcott/dp/0688151329/ 2/97
http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Mask-Thrillers-Louisa-Alcott/dp/0688003389/ 1995
http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Mask-Thrillers-Louisa-Alcott/dp/B009Z34UVS/ 1975
"Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott" [1976] (in paperback 1976, A Marble Woman) Edited by Madeleine B. Stern
"A Double Life: Newly-Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott" [7/1988] Edited by Madeleine B. Stern
five stories that were published in serial form in the 1860s and were recently found to have been written anonymously by Louisa May Alcott: "A Pair of Eyes";
"The Fate of The Forrests"; "A Double Tragedy"; "Ariel: A Legend of The Lighthouse"; and "Taming A Tartar"
http://www.amazon.com/Double-Life-Discovered-Thrillers-Louisa/dp/0316031011/
http://www.amazon.com/Double-Life-Discovered-Thrillers-Louisa/dp/0333490339/ 89
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"From Jo March's Attic: Tales of Intrigue and Suspense" [1993] Edited by Madeleine B. Stern & Daniel Shealy nine stories by Louisa May Alcott that were originally published anonymously in Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine and other peiodicals between 1868 and 1870 Northeastern 8¾x5¾ hardcover [12/93] for $46.93 re-issued as "The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott" [1995] Citadel Press 8½x5½ pb [10/2000] for $11.99 |
"Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers" [4/1995] Edited by Madeleine B. Stern
now Alcott's 29 known thrillers are available for the first time in a single volume
http://www.amazon.com/Louisa-May-Alcott-Unmasked-Collected/dp/1555532268/
http://www.amazon.com/Louisa-May-Alcott-Unmasked-Collected/dp/155553225X/
"The Feminist Alcott: Stories of A Woman's Power" [1996] by Louisa May Alcott, Edited by Madeleine B. Stern
"Behind A Mask", "Pauline's Passion and Punishment", "Taming A Tatar", and "V.V."
"A Double Tragedy: An Actor's Story" () {as Anonymous}
"A Long Fatal Love Chase" (written in 1866; first published in 1995) {as A.M. Barnard}
"A Pair of Eyes: or, Modern Magic" () {as Anonymous}
"The Abbot's Ghost: or, Maurice Treherne's Temptation - A Christmas Story" (1867) {as A.M. Barnard}
"Ariel: A Legend of The Lighthouse" () {as Anonymous}
"Behind A Mask, or A Woman's Power" (1866) {as A.M. Barnard}
"The Fate of The Forrests" () {as Anonymous}
"The Mysterious Key and What It Opened" (1867)
"Pauline's Passion and Punishment" (1862)
"Taming A Tartar" () {as Anonymous}
Other Works
 | "Louisa's Wonder Book: An Unknown Alcott Juvenile" [1870] by Louisa May Alcott, Edited with an Introduction & Bibliography by Madeleine B. Stern Originally serialized in Merry's Museum Magazine issues of April-November 1868, under the title "Will's Wonder-Book"; 1870 edition published by H.B. Fuller, Boston, as part of their Dirigo Series; chapter titles include "The Ants", "The Bees", "The Spiders" C.M.U./Clarke Historical Library 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/1975] out of print/used Central Michigan University 9x6½ hardcover [10/1975] out of print/used |
 | "The Louisa Alcott Reader: A Supplementary Reader For The Fourth Year of School" [Little, Brown 1908]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [5/2012] for FREE {sic} HardPress Publng 9x6 pb [1/2010] for $3.36 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [9/2017] for $3.99 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [6/2016] for $3.99 Facsimile Publrs hardcover [2015] for $18.87 Wentworth Press 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2019] for $24.95 |
 | "The Portable Louisa May Alcott" [2000] Edited by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser contains: 8 short stories; excerpts from 6 novels & novellas; excerpts from memoirs, journals & letters; and a bibliography Kindle Edition from Penguin Books [2000 edition] for $16.99 Penguin Classics 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2000] for $12.98 Penguin Classics pb [7/2000] out of print/used |
| | "Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys" [2005] Edited by Elaine Showalter Kindle Edition from Library of America/Penguin Random House [2/2005] for $19.99 Library of America 8x5 hardcover [2/2005] for $31.11 |
 | "Louisa May Alcott: Work, Eight Cousins, Rose In Bloom, Stories & Other Writings" [2014] Edited by Susan Cheever
Kindle Edition from Library of America/Penguin Random House [8/2014] for $19.99 Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/2014] for $30.10 |
POETRY: Louisa May Alcott wrote
"A Lament For S.B. Pat Paw"
"A Little Bird I Am"
"A Little Grey Curl"
"Brighter Shone The Golden Shadows"
"Chingery Wangery Chan"
"Clover-Blossom"
"Fairy Song"
"The Flower's Lesson"
"Fragments"
"From Our Happy Home"
"Gingerbread"
"In The Garret"
"The Lay of The Golden Goose"
"Little Nell"
"Little Paul"
"Mary's Dream"
"The Mother Moon"
"Mountain-Laurel"
"My Beth"
"My Doves"
"My Kingdom"
"Now Hark, Little May"
"Our Little Ghost"
"Sweet! Sweet!"
"Three Unpublished Poems"
"To The First Robin"
"What Polly Found In Her Stocking"
Publisher Ironweed American Classics existed around 1999-2000; they issued books made from public domain works of American authors
such as Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack London, and Frank Norris
"The Poems of Louisa May Alcott [2000] Introduction by Robert S. Nelsen {content details not found}
160-page Ironweed American Classics 9x6 pb [3/2000] out of print/used
 | "The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott" [2012] the Table of Contents lists: Clover-Blossom; In The Garret; The Flower's Lesson; A Lament For S.B. Pat Paw; A Little Grey Curl; Brighter Shone The Golden Shadows; Chingery Wangery Chan; Fairy Song; Fragments; From Our Happy Home; Gingerbread; Mary's Dream; Mountain-Laurel; My Beth; My Kingdom; Now Hark, Little May; Sweet! Sweet!; and Flower Fables [1854] {NOTE: the latter piece is at page 33, yet the book is 102 pages long; unidentified editor-publisher may have added the stories from "Flower Fables" as padding} 102-page CreateSpace 10x7 pb [8/2012] for $5.99 |
 | "Louisa May Alcott Poetry Collection" [2012] Edited by Alex Sol This modern book contains: Best Quotes; "The Lay of The Golden Goose"; "Our Little Ghost"; "Fairy Song"; "Brighter Shone The Golden Shadows"; "A Little Bird I Am"; "Little Nell"; "Little Paul"; "The Mother Moon"; "My Doves"; "To The First Robin"; "What Polly Found In Her Stocking"; and "Three Unpublished Poems" 46-page Kindle Edition from Alex Sol [3/2015] for 99¢ |
Stageplays, Movies, Other Media
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"The Rival Prima Donnas" stageplay [1854] was written for the Boston Theatre
Louisa later burned the manuscript due to a quarrel between the actresses on who would play what role.
 | "Comic Tragedies" [Roberts Brothers, Boston 1893] co-authored by Louisa May Alcott & sister Anna Alcott Pratt book includes six stageplays written and performed by the Alcott sisters and mentioned in "Little Women": "Norna: or, The Witch's Curse"; "Captive of Castile: or, The Moorish Maiden's Vow"; "The Greek Slave"; "Ion"; "Bianca: An Operatic Tragedy"; and "The Unloved Wife: or, A Woman's Faith" Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [1/2018] for $1.89 Kindle Edition from Start Publng/Simon & Schuster Digital [3/2013] for $1.99 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [6/2016] for $4.10 S.M.K. Books 9¼x6 hardcover [4/2018] for $14.99 |
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Louisa May Alcott credits at Internet Broadway Database
five Broadway productions of "Little Women": 1916-17, Dec 1931, Dec 1944, 1945-46, Jan-May 2005 musical
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"Little Women: A Comedy in Four Acts" stageplay [1911] by Marian de Forest [1864-1935] Kindle Edition from HardPress Publng [8/2014] for $7.55 Read Books 7x5 pb [1/2008] for $7.95 Sagwan Press 9¼x6 hardcover [8/2015] for $23.95 |
 | "Little Women" Broadway musical [Jan-May 2005] Ran at the Virginia Theatre in New York City from January to May in 2005 for 55 previews & 137 performances; book by Allan Knee, music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, musical director Andrew Wilder; directed by Susan H. Schulman; choreography by Michael Lichtefeld; starring Sutton Foster, Maureen McGovern, Janet Carroll, Danny Gurwin, John Hickok, Amy McAlexander, Megan McGinnis, Jenny Powers, Robert Stattel, Jim Weitzer production credits at Internet Broadway Database • stageplay entry at Wikipedia Ghostlight Records original cast CD [5/2005] 20-tracks - out of prodn/used Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records MP-3 original cast album download [10/2017] for $11.43 |
"Louisa's Little Women" [] a stage adaptation of Alcott's novel by Scott Lynch-Giddings & his wife Beth Lynch
http://www.histage.com/beth-lynch-and-scott-lynch-giddings
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Louisa May Alcott credits {50+ items since 1917} at Internet Movie Database
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 | "The Little Women Cookbook: Tempting Recipes From The March Sisters and Their Friends and Family" [2019] by Wini Moranville, With Inspiring Quotations from Louisa May Alcott Kindle Edition from Harvard Common Press [10/2019] for $9.20 Harvard Common Press 8¾x7¾ hardcover [10/2019] for $14.29 |
 | 'The Little Women Cookbook: Novel Takes On Classic Recipes From Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and Friends" [2019] by Jenne Bergstrom & Miko Osada
Kindle Edition from Ulysses Press/Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [10/2019] for $11.99 Ulysses Press 9½x8 hardcover [10/2019] for $15.79 |
Kindle Editions
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with FREE Kindle Apps for PC, Mac, iPhone/iPod, iPad, Android & BlackBerry
 | "The Best of Louisa May Alcott (Annotated): 7 Great Books In One" for Kindle [2013]
contains: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins, and Rose In Bloom Kindle Edition from Di Lernia Publrs [12/2013] for 99¢ |
 | "Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2014] contains: concise introductions to the novels and other texts, with many beautiful illustrations; all 12 novels published under Alcott’s name, many fully illustrated with their original artwork; Alcott's short stories, with index; Alcott's letters; rare 'sensation thrillers' that Alcott wrote under the pen name A.M. Barnard (a first in digital publishing); Alcott's complete poems, with index (a first in digital publishing); rare non-fiction works; and a biography by Alcott enthusiast Ednah D. Cheney (NOTE: the two obscure novels "A Long Fatal Love Chase" and "The Inheritence" are still held under copyright and are not in this collection) 10,693-page Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [1/2014] for $2.99 |
 | "Louisa May Alcott Collection: More Than 60 Works, with Original Illustrations" [2015]
7,165-page Kindle Edition from Alex Sol [2/2015] for $2.99 contains: NOVELS: Moods [1865]; Little Women series, 1868-86; An Old-Fashioned Girl [1870]; The Mysterious Key [1867]; Eight Cousins [1875]; Rose In Bloom [1876]; Under The Lilacs [1878]; Jack and Jill [1880]; Work [1873]; POETRY: The Lay of The Golden Goose; Brighter Shone The Golden Shadows; Our Little Ghost; Fairy Song; A Little Bird I Am; Little Nell; Little Paul; The Mother Moon; My Doves; To The First Robin; What Polly Found In Her Stocking; Three Unpublished Poems; STAGEPLAYS: Comic Tragedies [1893]: Norna: or, The Witch's Curse; Captive of Castile; The Greek Slave; Ion; Bianca; The Unloved Wife; SHORT FICTION: "Flower Fables, Illustrated" [1854]; 'Pauline's Passion and Punishment' (1862); "Hospital Sketches" [1863]; "On Picket Duty and Other Tales" [1864]; 'Behind A Mask' {as A.M. Barnard} (1866); 'The Abbot's Ghost' {as A.M. Barnard} (1867); 'Doctor Dorn's Revenge' (1868); 'A Strange Island' (1868); "Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories" [1868]; 'Perilous Play' (1869); 'Lost In A Pyramid' (1869); "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Illustrated" [1872–82] 66 short stories in 6 volumes; 'Scarlet Stockings' (1876); 'Silver Pitchers: and Independence' (1876); "Spinning-Wheel Stories" 12 short stories [1884]; "Lulu's Library, Illustrated" [1886–89] 32 short stories in 3 volumes; "A Garland For Girls, Illustrated" 8 short stories [1888]; 'Marjorie's Three Gifts' (1899); 'The Candy Country' short story (1885); and 'A Modern Cinderella' (1904) ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: "L.M. Alcott: The Children's Friend" illustrated biography [1888] by Ednah D. Cheney; 1905 biography by Seth Curtis Beach [1837-1932] — and MORE . . . |
"Louisa May Alcott Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Dec 21, 2015
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019NG4OUS/
"The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Dec 21, 2015
Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern ... and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019NG4Z02/
"Louisa May Alcott: 16 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated Edition): Kindle Edition 7/2017
Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins, Rose ... The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…
https://www.amazon.com/Louisa-May-Alcott-Illustrated-Mephistopheles-ebook/dp/B073SD5JBJ/
"Louisa May Alcott: The Best Works Dec 5, 2019
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0792FY5QD/
Works About Louisa May Alcott
"The Story of Louisa May Alcott" [Signature Books, 1955] by Joan Howard, Illustrated by Flora Smith
http://www.amazon.com/Story-Louisa-Alcott-Signature-Books/dp/B0007DPU0A/
"Invincible Louisa: The Story of The Author of Little Women" [Little, Brown & Co. 1968] by Cornelia Meigs ISBN 978-0316565943
"Louisa May: A Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott" [Houghton Mifflin, 1977] by Martha Saxton ISBN 0-395-25720-4
"Louisa May Alcott" biography [Twayne, 1983] by Ruth K. MacDonald ISBN 0-8057-7397-5
"A Hunger For Home: Louisa May Alcott and Little Women" [Temple UP, 3/1984] by Sarah Elbert
http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Home-Louisa-Alcott-Little/dp/0877223173/
"The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott" [Little, Brown & Co. 1987] edited by Joel Myerson, Daniel Shealy & Madeleine B. Stern ISBN 0-316-59361-3
"The Journals of Louisa May Alcott" [Little, Brown & Co. 1989] edited by Joel Myerson, Daniel Shealy & Madeleine B. Stern ISBN 0-316-59362-1
"Louisa May Alcott (Modern Critical Views" [1994] by literary critic Harold Bloom [1930-2019]
Chelsea House Publng hardcover [4/94] out of print/SOLD OUT !
"Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, and Slavery" [4/1997] by Sarah Elbert
http://www.amazon.com/Louisa-May-Alcott-Race-Slavery/dp/1555533078/
http://www.amazon.com/Louisa-May-Alcott-Race-Slavery/dp/1555533086/
"Louisa May Alcott: From Blood & Thunder To Hearth and Home" [1998] by Madeleine B. Stern
"Louisa May Alcott" [Lerner Publng Group, 1998] by Amy Ruth Allen ISBN 978-0822549383
"The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia" [Greenwood Press, 2001] Edited by Gregory Eiselein & Anne K. Phillips ISBN 0-313-30896-9
"The American Prejudice Against Color" [11/2002] by Sarah Elbert
http://www.amazon.com/American-Prejudice-Against-Elbert-2002-11-07/dp/B01F7XX6SM/
"Alcott in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by
Family, Friends and Associates" [Univ Iowa Press, 2005] Edited by Daniel Shealy ISBN 0-87745-938-X
"Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father" [Norton, 2007] by John Matteson ISBN 978-0-393-05964-9
"Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women" [2009] by Harriet Reisen ISBN 0-805-08299-9
"Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography" [Simon & Schuster, 2010] by Susan Cheever
http://www.amazon.com/Louisa-May-Alcott-Personal-Biography/dp/1416569928/
http://www.amazon.com/Louisa-May-Alcott-Personal-Biography/dp/141656991X/
"Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother" [Free Press, 2012] by Eve LaPlante ISBN 978-1-451-62066-5
"Stepping into Louisa May Alcott's World" [TIME for Kids, 1/2017] by Dona Herweck Rice
http://www.amazon.com/Stepping-Louisa-Alcotts-Nonfiction-Readers/dp/1493836196/ pb
Fiction About The Alcotts
 | "Louisa and The Missing Heiress: The First Louisa May Alcott Mystery" [2004] by Anna Maclean {pseudonym of Jeanne Mackin} When the body of her dear friend, wealthy newlywed Dorothy Wortham, is found floating in Boston's harbor, author Louisa May Alcott is compelled to investigate . . . Kindle Edition from Berkley/Penguin [6/2011] for $2.99 {sic} Signet mass pb [4/2004] out of print/used Obsidian 8¼x5½ pb [6/2011] for $15.00 Signet 8x5¾ hardcover [4/2004] for $19.99 |
 | "Louisa and The Country Bachelor: A Louisa May Alcott Mystery" [2005] by Anna Maclean {pseudonym of Jeanne Mackin} While Louisa is visiting cousins in rural New Hampshire, a local bachelor is found dead in a ravine, the apparent victim of an accidental fall while hiking; but Louisa suspects foul play and sets out to uncover the vicious murderer hiding among her family's new friends . . . Kindle Edition from Berkley/Penguin [10/2011] for $5.99 Signet mass pb [4/2005] out of print/used Berkley 8x5½ pb [10/2011] for $10.89 |
 | "Louisa and The Crystal Gazer" [2006] by Anna Maclean {pseudonym of Jeanne Mackin} Young non-believer Louisa May Alcott accompanies her friend Sylvia to visit Boston's most-famous spiritual medium; on their second visit, they find that the seer has been murdered . . . Kindle Edition from Berkley/Penguin [2/2012] for $11.99 Signet mass [5/2006] for $19.95 Berkley pb 8¼x5½ [2/2012] for $10.71 |
 | "The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott: A Novel" [2010] by Kelly O'Connor McNees That pivotal summer of 1855 when the Alcott family visited cousins in rural New Hampshire . . . Kindle Edition from Berkley/Penguin Group [4/2010] for $1.99 Berkley 8¼x5 pb [5/2011] for $3.73 Penguin Adult 9½x6½ deckle-edge hardcover [4/2010] out of print/50+ used |
 | "Little Woman In Blue: A Novel of May Alcott" [2015] by Jeannine Atkins Kindle Edition from She Writes Press [9/2015] for $8.69 She Writes Press 8½x5½ pb [9/2015] for $11.22 |
"The Other Alcott: A Novel" Paperback – September 5, 2017 by Elise Hooper
http://www.amazon.com/Other-Alcott-Novel-Elise-Hooper/dp/0062645331/
"Only Gossip Prospers: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott in New York" [12/2019] by Lorraine Tosiello
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B082DCVXTL/
http://www.amazon.com/Only-Gossip-Prospers-Louisa-Alcott/dp/194959811X/
Image Gallery
Gallery & Timeline of Residences of the Alcott Family
Fruitlands was a Utopian agrarian commune co-founded by Amos Bronson Alcott; it was located in Harvard, Massachusetts, and lasted only seven months in 1843.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitlands_(transcendental_center)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitlands_Museum
The Wayside in Concord was home in turn to the Alcott family (1845-48), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852-79), and children's writer Margaret Sidney (1883-1924).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wayside
The Alcotts were forced to leave Concord, moving into the house at 20 Pinckney Street in Beacon Hill, Boston (Louisa May’s room
was on the third floor); Alcott family lived there 1852-55; Louisa wrote and published her first book "Flower Fables" during this time.
Alcott family moved back to Concord after 1857 and lived in the Orchard House until 1877.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard_House
 | "Orchard House: Home of Little Women" TV docushort [indep May 2018] 27-minute color TV docushort with cast members from the 2018 TV movie Co-produced, co-written & directed by Jan Turnquist; co-produced & co-written by Justin King; featuring Zareen Karani Araoz, actor Dylan Baker, Caroline Dunbar, actor Willa Fitzgerald, actor Maya Hawke, filmmaker Justin King, photographer Annie Leibovitz, author John Matteson, Olivia Milch, Kiko Mills, and Orchard House Executive Director Jan Turnquist; won Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program at the 2019 New England Emmies • full credits at IMDb widescreen color DVD [8/00] out of prodn/used watch 5/2018 official trailer [2:00] online at YouTube watch Part 1 [7/2011 upload; 14:30] online at YouTube • Part 2 not found |
In 1862, Louisa moved to Washington, D.C. to volunteer as a nurse; she fell ill in January 1863 and her father came and took her back to Orchard House.
Louisa's first trip to Europe was from July 1865 to July 1866.
Louisa's second trip to Europe was from April 1870 to June 1871.
Bronson Alcott left Orchard House in 1877 when his wife died.
Newly-widowed Anna Alcott Pratt and sister Louisa purchased the house at 255 Main Street in Concord; the family lived there until 1885.
(Henry David Thoreau [1817-62] lived in the house from 1850 to 1862.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoreau%E2%80%93Alcott_House
Alcott Residence 1885-88 at 10 Louisburg Square, Beacon Hill, Boston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_addresses_in_Beacon_Hill,_Boston#Louisburg_Square
Family & Friends
Louisa May Alcott was born in November 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania; she lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts; she never married;
the four 'Little Women' novels were published 1868-1886; she died in March 1888 at age 55 in Boston, Massachusetts.
parents Amos Bronson Alcott [1799-1888] and Abigail 'Abba' May Alcott [1800-77] were Transcendentalists.
sister Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt [1831-93] was the model for 'Meg'
{ second sister Louisa } was the model for 'Jo'
sister Elizabeth Sewall 'Lizzie' Alcott [1835-58] was the model for 'Beth'
infant brother Frederic Alcott [1839] lived only two days
sister May Alcott Nieriker [1840-79] was the model for 'Amy'
childhood family friend Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
childhood family friend Nathaniel Hawthorne [1804-64]
childhood family friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [1807-82]
childhood family friend Henry David Thoreau [1817-62]
Ladislas 'Laddie' Wisniewski [b. 1846] of Poland - was a model for 'Laurie'
Alcott's romance while in Europe was detailed in her journals but then deleted by Alcott herself before her death.
author Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué [1777-1843]
wrote "Undine" [1811] and "Sintram and His Companions" [1814] which are mentioned several times in "Little Women"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_de_la_Motte_Fouqu%C3%A9
lifelong friend Alf {nicknamed 'Dolphus'} Whitman [b. 1842] from Lawrence, Kansas - was a model for 'Laurie'
L i n k s
Louisa May Alcott entry at Wikipedia
browse books at Louisa May Alcott Store {returns 480+ items} at Amazon
Louisa May Alcott credits {50+ items since 1917} at Internet Movie Database
Louisa May Alcott credits at Internet Broadway Database
http://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/louisa-may-alcott/
http://www.louisamayalcottismypassion.com/ fanblog
here on the Louisa May Alcott [1832-88] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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