Louisa May Alcott Books In Order

Little Women Books In Publication Order

  1. Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868)
  2. Good Wives (1869)
  3. Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (1871)
  4. Jo’s Boys and How They Turned Out (1886)

Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag Books In Publication Order

  1. Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag (1872)
  2. Shawl-Straps (1872)
  3. Cupid and Chow Chow (1873)
  4. My Girls (1877)
  5. Jimmy’s Cruise in the Pinafore Etc. (1879)
  6. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (1882)

Eight Cousins Books In Publication Order

  1. Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875)
  2. Rose in Bloom (1876)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Inheritance (1849)
  2. Moods (1864)
  3. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869)
  4. Work (1873)
  5. A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
  6. Under the Lilacs (1878)
  7. Jack & Jill (1880)
  8. Proverb Stories (1882)
  9. Lulu’s Library (1886)
  10. A Long Fatal Love Chase (1995)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Flower Fables (1854)
  2. A Modern Cinderella (1860)
  3. On Picket Duty, and Other Tales (1864)
  4. A Marble Woman (1865)
  5. Behind a Mask (1867)
  6. Kitty’s Class Day and Other Stories (1882)
  7. Spinning-Wheel Stories (1884)
  8. A Garland for Girls (1887)
  9. A Whisper in the Dark (1889)
  10. The Louisa Alcott Reader (1908)
  11. Glimpses of Louisa (1968)
  12. Short Stories (1968)
  13. Plots and Counterplots (1976)
  14. An Intimate Anthology (1980)
  15. Selected Fiction (1980)
  16. Hidden Louisa May Alcott (1984)
  17. Works of Louisa May Alcott (1986)
  18. A Double Life (1988)
  19. Louisa May Alcott’s Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories (1992)
  20. The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott (1993)
  21. Louisa May Alcott Unmasked (1995)
  22. Modern Magic (1995)
  23. The Quiet Little Woman (1999)
  24. The Poems of Louisa May Alcott (2000)
  25. The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860 (2000)
  26. Louisa May Alcott’s Christmas Treasury (2002)
  27. The Brownie and the PrincessOther Stories (2004)
  28. Doctor Dorn’s Revenge and A Strange Island (2007)
  29. The Candy Country and How They Ran Away (2008)
  30. Morning-Glories (2009)
  31. The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott (2012)
  32. Sisters (2017)
  33. A Vintage Christmas (2018)
  34. May Flowers (2019)
  35. A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories (2019)

Chapbooks In Publication Order

  1. Transcendental Wild Oats (1873)
  2. Marjorie’s Three Gifts (1899)
  3. Diana & Persis (1978)
  4. Kate’s Choice (2001)
  5. Debby’s Debut (2010)
  6. Love and Self Love (2010)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Pauline’s Passion and Punishment (1862)
  2. The Abbot’s Ghost, Or Maurice Treheme’s Temptation (1867)
  3. Perilous Play, And, Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy’s Curse (1869)
  4. Poppies and Wheat (1900)
  5. Trudel’s Siege (1976)
  6. Scarlet Stockings (2004)
  7. The Baron’s Gloves (2005)
  8. Silver Pitchers and Independence (2007)
  9. Little Button Rose (2008)
  10. The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (2010)
  11. The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts (2013)
  12. The Death of John (2013)
  13. The Cross on the Old Church Tower (2013)
  14. On Picket Duty (2014)
  15. Doctor Dorn’s Revenge (2015)
  16. Effie’s Christmas Dream (2015)
  17. The Dolls’ Journey (2015)
  18. The Blind Lark (2016)
  19. Comic Tragedies (2016)
  20. How They Ran Away (2016)
  21. Sophie’s Secret (2016)
  22. Lilybell and Thistledown (2016)
  23. The Brownie and the Princess (2017)
  24. Kitty’s Class Day (2018)
  25. Pansies and Water-Lilies (2018)
  26. The Mysterious Key (2019)
  27. Lost in a Pyramid (2019)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Civil War Hospital Sketches (1863)
  2. Hospital Sketches (1863)
  3. Behind a Mask, or a Woman’s Power (1866)
  4. Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (1889)
  5. The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott (1987)
  6. The Journals Of Louisa May Alcott (1989)
  7. The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846 (1993)
  8. Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery (1997)
  9. The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott (2001)
  10. Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War (2006)

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Louisa May Alcott Books Overview

Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author to be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War. It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with woman s work, including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the girl s book her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America. Camille Cauti, Ph.D., is an editor and literary critic who lives in New York City. She is a specialist in the Catholic conversion trend among members of the avant garde in London in the 1890s.

Good Wives

Time has brought changes to the March household home of the girls Jo, Amy, Beth and Meg, introduced in Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women. Having returned safely from war, Mr. March has become a trusted and beloved minister in the local parish. Home, too, is young John Brooke, whose plans for a shared life with Meg, however modest and poor that life may turn out to be, make the eldest March girl think herself the happiest soul in Christendom. The young lovers will live in a charming little house dubbed ‘The Dovecote,’ with its front lawn the size of a handkerchief. Life promises adventures and fulfillment for the other March girls, as well for not only are their talents developing, but they are growing older and more accomplished in the complicated matter of living their own lives. Tomboyish Jo’s curly crop is lengthening into long coils, and she is learning to carry herself with ease if not quite with grace. Beth has grown slender, pale, and more quiet than ever, with beautiful eyes brim*ming with kindness. And Amy, the flower of the family, at sixteen already has the air and bearing of a full gown woman, and exerts an indescribable charm especially on young men. Louisa May Alcott 1832 88 was active in the temperance and women’s suffrage movements of the 19th century. It is for her popular fiction that she is best remembered, however. Her series of novels beginning with Little Women, and continuing with Good Wives, ranks high among the best children’s series of all time.

Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys

Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott, is the second book in the Little Women trilogy. Also titled Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys, the book follows Jo Bhaer and her husband Professor Bhaer as they run the Plumfield Estate School, taking under their wing young boys and girls in need of instruction and love. As in Little Women, each student has his or her own faults that make it all the more difficult to mature into proper young ladies and gentlemen. And, as in Little Women, the children must confront those difficulties and fears head on before truly learning their lesson. In 1868, Alcott’s Little Women launched the success of the March family saga along with the success of Alcott the writer, which lives on into our own time. Little Men focuses on Jo and her family, likely because Alcott modeled Jo after herself and always felt closest to the character. Readers fell in love with the most outgoing March sister as well, and their devotion continued through the exploits of her sons and students in the final two books in this captivating trilogy. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 1832 1888, one of the most well known American novelists of the 19th century, was born on November 29, 1832 to transcendentalist educator Amos Bronson Alcott and his wife, Abigail May Alcott. She was the second of four sisters like Jo, her literary corollary, and grew up in a family that encouraged and sympathized with her abolitionist and feminist leanings. As a child she received instruction from noted literary figures such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, all family friends. In addition to the Little Women series, which included four novels, she wrote 28 other works, three under the pen name A.M Barnard. Though Alcott had chronic health problems in her later years, most likely attributed to an autoimmune disease, she continued to write until her death at 55 in 1888.

Jo’s Boys and How They Turned Out

Best known for the novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo’s Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo s Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo remains at the center of the tale, surrounded by her boys including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician Nat as they experience shipwreck and storm, disappointment and even murder. Popular for over a century, Alcott s series still holds universal appeal with its powerful and affectionate depiction of family the haven where the prodigal can always return, adversity is shared, and our dreams of being cherished, despite our flaws, come true. In this edition of Jo s Boys, readers once again experience a treasured classic by one of America s best loved writers.

Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag

Louisa May Alcott 1832 1888 was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. Due to the family’s poverty, she began work at an early age as an occasional teacher, seamstress, governess, domestic helper, and writer her first book was Flower Fables 1854. As she grew older, she developed as both an abolitionist and a feminist. A lesserknown part of her work are the passionate, fiery novels and stories she wrote, usually under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, such as A Long Fatal Love Chase 1866. Alcott also produced moralistic and wholesome stories for children, and a semi autobiographical tale Work 1873. In her later life, Alcott became an advocate of women’s suffrage and was part of a group of female authors during the U. S. Gilded Age to address women’s issues in a modern and candid manner. Despite worsening health, Alcott wrote through the rest of her life.

Shawl-Straps

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Cupid and Chow Chow

‘I don’t care to disturb his happy childhood with quarrels beyond his comprehension. I shall teach him to be as good and just a man as his father, and feel quite sure that no woman will suffer wrong at his hands,’ returned Mrs. Ellen, smiling at Cupid’s papa, who nodded back as if they quite understood one another.

Jimmy’s Cruise in the Pinafore Etc.

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An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving morning is here, and the Bassett family’s cozy kitchen is filled with the hustle and bustle of the holiday. But this year something is different: Tilly, Prue, and their brothers and sisters have been left in charge of everything from the roasted turkey tothe apple slump. They tie on their aprons and step into thekitchen, but are they reallyup for the challenge of cooking a Thanksgiving feast? In this stunning new edition of Louisa May Alcott’s classic holiday tale, James Bernardin’s joyous illustrations bring the spirit of a truly old fashioned Thanksgiving to vibrant life.

Rose in Bloom

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The Inheritance

Louisa May Alcott, who spent much of her childhood amid an intellectual circle that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, embarked on her own literary efforts at an early age. Her recently discovered first novel, The Inheritance, written when Alcott was just 17, offers readers a fascinating look at the birth of a remarkable career. Influenced by the melodrama of the contemporary theater, the sentimental romances she read as a child, and the popular gothic novels of the time, Alcott weaves a tale far removed from the reality of her everyday life in Boston. The Inheritance, set in an English country manor, is the story of Edith Adelon, an Italian orphan brought to England by Lord Hamilton as a companion for his children. With a charm reminiscent of Jane Austen’s novels, Alcott’s plot sets love and courtesy against depravity and dishonor and with the help of a secret inheritance, allows virtue to prevail. In their Introduction, Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy relate their fortuitous discovery of Alcott’s manuscript draft of The Inheritance preserved at the Houghton Library of Harvard. They explore the forces both literary and personal that shaped the novel, and study how it foreshadowed Alcott’s later work.

Moods

‘Like her later works for children, Alcott’s first novel is well and imaginatively written, highly moralistic, unlikely, and moving.’ –The Antioch Review Moods, Louisa May Alcott’s first novel, was published in 1864, four years before the best-selling Little Women. The novel unconventionally presents a ‘little woman,’ a true-hearted abolitionist spinster, and a fallen Cuban beauty, their lives intersecting in Alcott’s first major depiction of the ‘woman problem.’ Sylvia Yule, the hero*ine of Moods, is a passionate tomboy who yearns for adventure. The novel opens as she embarks on a river camping trip with her brother and his two friends, both of whom fall in love with her. These rival suitors, close friends, are modeled on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Aroused, but still ‘moody’ and inexperienced, Sylvia marries the wrong man. In the rest of the novel, Alcott attempts to resolve the dilemma she has created and leaves her readers asking whether, in fact, there is a place for a woman such as Sylvia in a man’s world. In 1882, eighteen years after the original publication, Alcott revised and republished the novel. Her own literary success and the changes she helped forge in women’s lives now allowed her hero*ine to meet, as Alcott said, ‘a wiser if less romantic fate than in the former edition.’ This volume contains the complete text of the 1864 Moods and Alcott’s revisions for the 1882 version, along with explanatory notes by the editor. Sarah Elbert is a professor of history at the State University of New York, Binghamton. She is the author of A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott’s Place in American Culture Rutgers University Press, 1987.

An Old-Fashioned Girl

An Old Fashioned Girl is a children fiction novel by Louisa May Alcott. It was first published as a whole in 1870, although the first part was published in 1869. It all starts out with a Tom Shaw fighting with his sister, Fan, to go to the station to pick up Fan’s friend. Fan does not wish to go because her curls will get ruined in the rain. Finally, Tom agrees to go, and runs to the station. There, he expects to meet a fashionable, breezy young lady, but is instead met by a young girl with a bright face, and simple clothes. Her name is Polly. The first book is about Polly having to deal with irritating Tom, who is sometimes nice and sometimes mean, her own simple country clothes being made fun of by Fan’s friends, and temptations that come her way. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Features Intuitive navigation. Searchable and interlinked. Open the book you want to read with one click. Make bookmarks, notes, highlights. Text annotation and mark up. Access the e Book anytime, anywhere. Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized. More e Books from MobileReference Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation TM All fiction books are only $0. 99. All collections are only $5. 99Designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices Search for any title: enter mobi shortened MobileReference and a keyword; for example: mobi ShakespeareTo view all books, click on the MobileReference link next to a book title Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library. Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible Modern Translation, Mormon Church’s Sacred Texts Philosophy: Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece Medical Study Guides: Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry College Study Guides: FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology History: Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt Health: Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Co*cktails, Astrology Reference: The World’s Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals

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A semi autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott, the work glorifies the struggles of women and dwells upon their sufferings before and during the Civil War. The protagonist Christie Devon has to work in different capacities and is hardly hit by the events of the war. As always, Alcott preaches that people should rise above themselves and understand the miseries of others.

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A Modern Mephistopheles

Known for her beloved children’s classics, Louisa May Alcott’s true zeal was for writing sensational literature stories and novels that she chose to have published anonymously or under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard. Her favorite of these works was A Modern Mephistophelles, which appeared anonymously in 1877. br. This chilling tale of greed, lust, and deception opens on a midwinter night when Felix Canaris, a despairing writer about to take his own life, is saved by a knock at the door. The mysterious visitor, a Jasper Helwyze, promises Felix fame and fortune in return for his complete devotion. Helwyze then plots to corrupt the overly ambitious Felix by cleverly manipulating the beautiful and innocent Gladys. and when Helwyze decides that he wants Gladys for himself, Felix must defend the adoring young woman from the destructive influence of his diabolical patron.

Under the Lilacs

T HE clm tree avenue ‘Was all overgrown, the greatgatc was neyer unlocked, and the old house hadbeen shut up for scycrnl years. Yet voices were heardabout the place, the lilacs nodded over the high wallas if they said, ‘1Ye could tell fine secrets if we chose,’and the mullein outside the gate made baste to reachthe keyhole, that it might peep in and see what wasgoing on. lf it llad suddenly grown up like a magic bennsta1k,and looked in on 3 certain June day, it would haye seena droll but pleasant sight, for somebody cyidently wasgoing to hs. Ye a party. From the gate to the porch went a wille walle, pavedwith smooth slabs of dark stone, and bo!derccl with thetall bushes which met overhead, making a green roof. All sorts of neglected flowers and wild weeds grewbetween their stems, covering the walls of this summerparlor with the prettiest tapestry. A board, propped ontwo blocks of wood, stood in the middle of the walk,covered with a little plaid shawTable of Contents CRAFTY It; 1 A MYSTFPIOUS DOG; II ‘YnERJ: THFY FOU D HlS 1JASTER; III BEN ; IV HIs STQHY; , REX GETS A IlLACE; VI A CmcULATl G LIBUARY; YII NEW FRlE DS TROT IX ; TII! !hss CELIA’S lIA ; IX A HAPPY TI::A ; X A IlEA VY TROUnLE; XI SU D_ Y; XII GOOD TIMES; XIII SO:IEBODY RUSS AWAY ; XIV SOMEBODY GETS LOST; XV BEX’S RIDE; XVI DETl::CTlVE TRORNTO ; XVII BETTY’S BRAVERY; XYlII Bows AND ARROWS; XIX SPFAKIXG PIECES; XX REX’S BIRTHDAY; XXI CUPID’S LAST ApPEARAXCE; XXII A Boy’s BARGAIN; xX n r SO::lIEIlODY CO:lIES ; XXIV THE GREAT GATE IS OPENED; f’AGP; 1; 12; 2; 29; 37; 46; 53; 63; 73; Sf; 94; 117; 132; H7; 167; l8i; 200; 217; 220; 243; 255; 268; 280; 292About the Publisher

Jack & Jill

THE FROST KING AND HOW THE FAIRIES CONQUERED HIM. THE Queen sat upon her throne, and all the fairies from the four kingdoms were gathered for a grand council. A very important question was to be decided~ and the bravest, wisest elves were tnet to see what could be done.

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I THE FROST KING A~D HOW THg FAIRIES; CO:NQUERED HUI ? ? ? ? ? ? 7; II LILYBELL AND THIS1’LEDOW~, OR THE; FArRY SLEErI~G BEAUTV’ ? 25; III RIPPLE> TH~ VATER SPRITE ? ? ? ? 50; IV EVA’S VISIT TO FAIRYLAND ? ? 68; V SUNSHIKE, AND Hf~R BROTHERS AND; SISTERS ? ? 9[; VI THE F AIRY SrRI~G ? ? ? ? ? lOt; VII QUEEN ASTER ? ? ? ? 122; VIII THE BROWNIE AND THE PRU’CESS 135; IX ~fERMAIDS ? ? ? ? 173; X LITTLE 3UD ? ? ? ? ? 203; XI THE FLOWER’S STORY ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 243

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Lulu’s Library

THE FROST KING AND HOW THE FAIRIES CONQUERED HIM. THE Queen sat upon her throne, and all the fairies from the four kingdoms were gathered for a grand council. A very important question was to be decided~ and the bravest, wisest elves were tnet to see what could be done.

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A Long Fatal Love Chase

‘I’d gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom,’ cries impetuous Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. Then, one stormy night, a brooding stranger appears in her remote island home, ready to take Rosamond to her word. Spellbound by the mysterious Philip Tempest, Rosamond is seduced with promises of love and freedom, then spirited away on Tempest’s sumptuous yacht. But she soon finds herself trapped in a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit. Desperate to escape, she flees to Italy, France, and Germany, from Parisian garret to mental asylum, from convent to chateau, as Tempest stalks every step of the fiery beauty who has become his obsession.A story of dark love and passionate obsession that was considered ‘too sensational’ to be published in the authors lifetime, A Long Fatal Love Chase was written for magazine serialization in 1866, two years before the publication of Little Women. Buried among Louisa May Alcott’s papers for more than a century, its publication is a literary landmark a novel that is bold, timeless, and mesmerizing.’From the Paperback edition.

Flower Fables

‘Fairyland’ was familiar territory to young Louisa May Alcott and her sisters, for they had often romped there and explored its secrets under the guidance of family friend, Henry David Thoreau. Fifteen years her elder, Thoreau led the Alcott girls and their friends on berry picking expeditions in the wooded land around Walden Pond, which he fancifully called ‘fairyland.’ It was on a piece of this land, owned by neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson, that the girls’ father, Amos Bronson Alcott, helped Thoreau build the now famous cabin where he lived ‘deliberately’ and wrote Walden. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. The remarkable convergence of 19th century writers in Concord, Massachusetts may be glimpsed in this collection of stories inspired during visits to Walden Woods. The Alcott family often visited Thoreau to swim in the cove near his cabin or explore the changing seasons in this tranquil spot. I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up. It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another. With Thoreau as a guide, Louisa and the other children learned much about nature, but Louisa in particular delighted in another aspect of Thoreau’s point of view. The very fact that he called the woods ‘Fairyland’ opened up a new way of thinking in the young writer’s mind. Whether he pointed out a new animal track, made a perfect bird call or discovered a bit of a cobweb and called it a fairy’s handkerchief, it was all magic to Louisa and fodder for her lively imagination. On many of her walks around Walden, Louisa shared original fairy stories with her sisters, Thoreau, and friends. One of these young friends was Ellen, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Six years her junior, Ellen looked up to Louisa the way Louisa looked up to Thoreau. Ellen was so captivated by the fairy stories that Louisa eventually wrote them down as a present for her. The entire Emerson family noticed and delighted in their young neighbor’s generous gift, and shared their pleasure with Louisa’s father. Mr. Alcott was equally impressed with his daughter’s stories. He was a complex and unusual man a genius, according to Emerson. He was a remarkable father, if an uncertain provider. He believed in encouraging children even girls to follow their dreams. The norm of the day was not to allow young ladies to tax themselves with such ‘brain work’ as writing. The rest of Boston society might have considered writing an improper occupation for a lady, but Mr. Alcott was proud and excited by his daughter’s talent. He carried her fairy stories to George W. Briggs, a new publisher on Washington Street in Boston. Briggs decided to take a chance and agreed to publish Louisa’s fairy stories under the title Flower Fables. Advance copies came out in time for Louisa to give them as gifts for the Christmas of 1854. How thrilled Ellen Emerson must have been to read the dedication in her friend’s first published book: To Ellen Emerson, for whom they were fancied, these Flower Fables are inscribed, by her friend, The Author Boston, Dec. 9, 1854. Louisa also provided Ellen with her own copy and this Christmas note: Dear Ellen, Hoping that age has not lessened your love for the Fairy folk I have ventured to place your name in my little book, for your interest in their sayings and doings, first called forth these ‘Flower Fables,’ most of which were fancied long ago in Concord woods and fields. The pictures are not what I hoped they would be and it is very evident that the designer is not as well acquainted with fairy forms and faces as you and I are, so we must each imagine to suit ourselves and I hope if the fairies tell me any more stories, they will let an Elfin artist illustrate them. So dear Ellen will you accept the accompanying book, with many wishes for a merry ‘Christmas, and a happy New Year,’ from your friend, Louisa M. Alcott. Louisa took special pride in giving her mother a copy of the book. Mrs. Alcott was called ‘Marmee’ by her daughters as was Mrs. March in the highly autobiographical Little Women. She read the following inscription in her copy of Flower Fables: 20 Pinckney Street, Boston, Dec. 25, 1854. Dear Mother, Into your Christmas stocking I have put my ‘first born,’ knowing that you will accept it with all its faults for grandmothers are always kind, and look upon it merely as an earnest of what I may yet do, for, with so much to cheer me on, I hope to pass in time from fairies and fables to men and realities. Whatever beauty or poetry is to be found in my little book is owing to your interest in and encouragement of all my efforts from the first to the last, and if ever I do anything to be proud of, my greatest happiness will be that I can thank you for that, as I may do for all the good there is in me; and I shall be content to write if it gives you pleasure. Jo is fussing about, My lamp is going out. To dear mother, with many kind wishes for a happy New Year and merry Christmas. I am your ever loving daughter Louy. Long before Louisa wrote Little Women or her now public ‘blood and thunder’ tales, the publication of these fairy stories confirmed the hopes of this fledgling author that she might, indeed, succeed. The woodland sprites and struggling human children who encounter them evoke those idyllic walks with Thoreau and the tom boyish prototype of Jo March, ‘Louy Alcott,’ who struggled with her conscience every bit as much as her character ‘Annie’ in ‘Little Annie’s Dream: or The Fairy Flower.’ ‘…
now, dear Annie,’ said the Fairy, bending nearer, ‘tell me why I found no sunshine on your face…
‘ ‘Ah, you will not love me any more if I should tell you all,’ said Annie, while the tears began to fall again; ‘I am not happy, for I am not good; how shall I learn to be a patient, gentle child? Good little Fairy, will you teach me how?’ These stories provide a fresh look at a complex author. Due to the success of Little Women and subsequent children’s books, Louisa was well known as ‘The Children’s Friend.’ She was less known as ‘Nurse Tribulation Periwinkle’ in Hospital Sketches, written after she served as a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War. She was completely unknown in her own life time as ‘A. M. Barnard,’ a prolific author of provocative thrillers. Today, many readers delight in those thrillers, but know nothing of her first published book, Flower Fables. Orchard House is proud to offer this commemorative edition of Flower Fables on the 150th anniversary of its publication. All proceeds from the sale of this edition will benefit the home where Louisa wrote and set Little Women, Orchard House in Concord Massachusetts. Known as ‘Apple Slump’ to Louisa and her mother, this 1690’s farmhouse has come to require a great deal of tender and costly care in order to save it from collapse. Thanks to initial funding from ‘Save America’s Treasures,’ the first phase of its preservation is complete and includes a foundation where none existed before. There is much more to do in order to stabilize interior walls and preserve such artifacts as the drawings that the youngest Alcott sister placed on the walls. Many dedicated individuals are committed to continuing preservation work on the home until the ‘Little Women House,’ as it is often known, is secure for future generations of readers. Please log onto www. louisamayalcott. org, if you would like to support this effort.. Many visitors comment that they enjoy Orchard House because they feel as if they are ‘walking through the book.’ Their enjoyment increases when they discover the complexity, talent, bravery, integrity and love of the real family that inspired Little Women. We at Orchard House hope that Flower Fables will be part of that discovery for you. Happy reading! Jan Turnquist Executive Director, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House Concord, Massachusetts Christmas 2004

A Modern Cinderella

Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many gabled, mossy roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about, a garden plat stretched upward to the whispering birches on the slope, and patriarchal elms stood sentinel upon the lawn, as they had stood almost a century ago, when the Revoiution rolled that way and found them young. One summer morning, when the air was full of country sounds, of mowers in the meadow, black birds by the brook, and the low of kine upon the hill side, the old house wore its cheeriest aspect, and a certain humble history began.

On Picket Duty, and Other Tales

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Behind a Mask

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Kitty’s Class Day and Other Stories

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Spinning-Wheel Stories

By the author of the classic book, ‘Little Women,’ this long out of print collection of heart warming tales by Louisa May Alcott show why her stories continue to endear this truly great American author to children all over the world.

A Garland for Girls

CONTENTS: MAY FLOWERS AN IVY SPRAY AND LADIES’ SLIPPERS PANSIES WATER LILIES POPPIES AND WHEAT LITTLE BUTTON ROSE MOUNTAIN LAUREL AND MAIDEN HAIR PREFACE: These stories were written for my own amuseme*nt during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work. If my girls find a little beauty or sunshine in these common blossoms, their old friend will not have made her Garland in vain. L.M. ALCOTT, SEPTEMBER, 1887 introduction to MAY FLOWERS: Being Boston girls, of course they got up a club for mental improvement, and, as they were all descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, they called it the Mayflower Club. A very good name, and the six young girls who were members of it made a very pretty posy when they met together, once a week, to sew, and read well chosen books. At the first meeting of the season, after being separated all summer, there was a good deal of gossip to be attended to before the question, ‘What shall we read?’ came up for serious discussion. Anna Winslow, as president, began by proposing ‘Happy Dodd;’ but a chorus of ‘I’ve read it!’ made her turn to her list for another title. ”Prisoners of Poverty’ is all about workingwomen, very true and very sad; but Mamma said it might do us good to know something of the hard times other girls have,’ said Anna, soberly; for she was a thoughtful creature, very anxious to do her duty in all ways. ‘I’d rather not know about sad things, since I can’t help to make them any better,’ answered Ella Carver, softly patting the apple blossoms she was embroidering on a bit of blue satin. ‘But we might help if we really tried, I suppose; you know how much Happy Dodd did when she once began, and she was only a poor little girl without half the means of doing good which we have,’ said Anna, glad to discuss the matter, for she had a little plan in her head and wanted to prepare a way for proposing it. ‘Yes, I’m always saying that I have more than my share of fun and comfort and pretty things, and that I ought and will share them with some one. But I don’t do it; and now and then, when I hear about real poverty, or dreadful sickness, I feel so wicked it quite upsets me. If I knew HOW to begin, I really would. But dirty little children don’t come in my way, nor tipsy women to be reformed, nor nice lame girls to sing and pray with, as it all happens in books,’ cried Marion Warren, with such a remorseful expression on her merry round face that her mates laughed with one accord. ‘I know something that I COULD do if I only had the courage to begin it. But Papa would shake his head unbelievingly, and Mamma worry about its being proper, and it would interfere with my music, and everything nice that I especially wanted to go to would be sure to come on whatever day I set for my good work, and I should get discouraged or ashamed, and not half do it, so I don’t begin, but I know I ought.’ And Elizabeth Alden rolled her large eyes from one friend to another, as if appealing to them to goad her to this duty by counsel and encouragement of some sort.

A Whisper in the Dark

I yearned to go, and when I willed the way so on appeared; so careless of bonnetless head and cambric gown, I stretched my hands to him, saying boldly, ‘Play young Lochinvar, Guy; I am little and light; take me up before you and show me the sea.’. He liked the daring feat, held out his hand, I stepped on his boot toe, sprang up, and away we went over the wide moor, where the sun shone in a cloudless heaven, the lark soared singing from the green grass at our feet, and the September wind blew freshly from the sea. As we paused on the upland slope, that gave us a free view of the country for miles, Guy dismounted, and standing with his arm about the saddle to steady me in my precarious seat, began to talk.

The Louisa Alcott Reader

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The Louisa Alcott Reader is one of the most beautifully written short stories by Alcott. The tale portrays a little girl’s innocence, enthusiasm and attitude towards life. Detailed descriptions and in depth analysis of the characters have been presented. This is an engrossing insight into longing, aspirations, and desires.

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Short Stories

Louisa May Alcott’s Lost Christmas Treasure’If someone would only come and take me away! I’m so tired of living here I don’t think I can bear it much longer,’ Patty cries. Patty’s life in an orphanage is a dark world with little hope, beauty, or love. Even after a family finally does come for Patty, it is only because they need a servant. But there is one person who does care about Patty. And soon Patty’s life will never be the same!Honor Books is pleased to present Louisa May Alcott’s newly discovered literary treasure as a book publishing first!In the 1870s, Louisa May Alcott made friends with five earnest fans of her best selling ‘Little Women.’ The young Lukens girls had written to Miss Alcott telling her that they were so inspired by the examples of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, that they, too, were launching their own literary publication. Soon the Lukens girls received a very special gift a Christmas story from Miss Alcott about a lonely orphan girl who finds a family to love her. Following its publication, the story stayed in an old magazine until many years later, a reader chanced upon it. Now its available to Alcott fans once again, released by Honor Books for the very first time as a stand alone volume. You will cherish this enchanting tale filled with quiet moral lessons in which orphan Patty finds her heart’s desire…
and you will find heartwarming inspiration for filling your own life with more love.

An Intimate Anthology

In this intimate anthology of letters, poems, stories, and other personal and literary writing by Louisa May Alcott, an often surprising portrait emerges of this pioneering writer. The author and her world are brought even more vividly to life with rare photographs and handwritten manuscripts and letters from The New York Public Library’s extensive collections.

Selected Fiction

Reveals new and fascinating dimensions of Alcott’s work Here, collected for the first time in one volume, is a grand selection of Louisa May Alcott’s many creative forays into the genres of romanticism, Gothicism, and realism. Written between 1852 and 1888, these works were chosen to show Alcott at her writing best. Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction gives us writing from all phases of Alcott’s life and work and allows us to appreciate once again the blend of humor, defiance, and insight that has won generations of readers. From romance stories to sensational Gothic figures, to realism supporting abolition and women’s rights, this collection demonstrates how Alcott’s distinctive voice shaped her work.

Works of Louisa May Alcott

Huge library including the Works of Louisa May Alcott Includes easy to use search and navigation. Includes tap and go Table of Contents. Includes: A GARLAND FOR GIRLSA MODERN CINDERELLA OR THE LITTLE OLD SHOEAN OLD FASHIONED GIRLEIGHT COUSINSFLOWER FABLESHOSPITAL SKETCHESJACK AND JILLJO’S BOYSKITTY’S CLASS DAY AND OTHER STORIESLITTLE MEN: LIFE AT PLUMFIELD WITH JO’S BOYSLITTLE WOMENMARJORIE’S THREE GIFTSON PICKET DUTY, AND OTHER TALESPAULINE’S PASSION AND PUNISHMENTROSE IN BLOOMTHE LOUISA ALCOTT READERTHE MYSTERIOUS KEY AND WHAT IT OPENEDUNDER THE LILACSWORK: A STORY OF EXPERIENCE

Louisa May Alcott’s Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories

A scholarly collection of the fairy tales and fantasy stories of Louisa May Alcott. A critical introduction examines the works and places them in the context of American fantasy.

Louisa May Alcott Unmasked

Uncovered by literary sleuths Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, the 29 known thrillers by one of America’s most adored juvenile fiction writers are now available in a single volume.

Modern Magic

Poignant collection of five stories based in part on the author’s experiences as a nurse during the Civil War includes ‘A Night,’ a moving account of her encounter with a dying soldier; ‘My Contraband,’ a gripping tale of vengeance involving a Civil War nurse, her Confederate patient and his former slave; ‘Happy Women,’ a fictionalized essay about four spinsters; and two other titles.

The Quiet Little Woman

Louisa May Alcott’s Lost Christmas Treasure’If someone would only come and take me away! I’m so tired of living here I don’t think I can bear it much longer,’ Patty cries. Patty’s life in an orphanage is a dark world with little hope, beauty, or love. Even after a family finally does come for Patty, it is only because they need a servant. But there is one person who does care about Patty. And soon Patty’s life will never be the same!Honor Books is pleased to present Louisa May Alcott’s newly discovered literary treasure as a book publishing first!In the 1870s, Louisa May Alcott made friends with five earnest fans of her best selling ‘Little Women.’ The young Lukens girls had written to Miss Alcott telling her that they were so inspired by the examples of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, that they, too, were launching their own literary publication. Soon the Lukens girls received a very special gift a Christmas story from Miss Alcott about a lonely orphan girl who finds a family to love her. Following its publication, the story stayed in an old magazine until many years later, a reader chanced upon it. Now its available to Alcott fans once again, released by Honor Books for the very first time as a stand alone volume. You will cherish this enchanting tale filled with quiet moral lessons in which orphan Patty finds her heart’s desire…
and you will find heartwarming inspiration for filling your own life with more love.

Louisa May Alcott’s Christmas Treasury

A publishing first the first and only complete collection of all Louisa May Alcott’s Christmas short stories and novellas.

Louisa May Alcott has been loved for generations of readers for her timeless stories like Little Women, Little Men, and Jo’s Boys. Few authors have equaled her ability to bring characters to life in such a way that readers truly care for and believe in them and are inspired to be like them.

Now for the first time, all of Alcott’s known Christmas short stories and novellas have been gathered into a single exquisite collection, which is sure to brighten the holidays for book lovers.

Readers of all ages will cherish these fifteen enchanting tales filled with hope, sorrow, faith, joy, redemption, strength, and goodness.

Louisa May Alcott’s Christmas Treasury is a wonderful gift for oneself or a loved one.

The Brownie and the PrincessOther Stories

A poor farmer’s daughter changes the life of a spoiled princess…
A fearless young girl saves her town from British soldiers…
Two elderly sisters come up with a plan to help a sickly child…
A country girl shows her city cousin that simple can be best…
From the author of the beloved classic little women come ten short stories to delight and charm. Throughout her life, Louisa May Alcott published many stories in children’s magazines, and now ten of the best of these tales have been collected here. Filled with characters who have all the warmth, liveliness, and appeal of Jo March and her sisters, these stories will open up a whole new world for Alcott fans, and remain every bit as captivating as when they were first written, over a century ago.

The Candy Country and How They Ran Away

This volume contains two short children’s stories by Louisa May Alcott: ‘The Candy Country’ and ‘How They Ran Away.’

Transcendental Wild Oats

He set out to make his utopian dream come true Bronson Alcott, his wife and four daughters, and an odd assortment of friends who knew more about philosophy than they did about farming. Would their experiment at Fruitlands last through the hard New England winter? Louisa May Alcott’s classic satire on her father’s Transcendentalist commune is for readers of all ages who love Alcott, history, or just a good story told with humor and sensitivity.

Marjorie’s Three Gifts

Louisa May Alcott 1832 1888 was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. Due to the family’s poverty, she began work at an early age as an occasional teacher, seamstress, governess, domestic helper, and writer her first book was Flower Fables 1854. As she grew older, she developed as both an abolitionist and a feminist. A lesserknown part of her work are the passionate, fiery novels and stories she wrote, usually under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, such as A Long Fatal Love Chase 1866. Alcott also produced moralistic and wholesome stories for children, and, with the exceptions of the semi autobiographical tale Work 1873. In her later life, Alcott became an advocate of women’s suffrage and was part of a group of female authors during the U. S. Gilded Age to address women’s issues in a modern and candid manner. Despite worsening health, Alcott wrote through the rest of her life. Amongst her other works are Little Men 1871, Shawl Straps 1895 and Marjorie’s Three Gifts.

Kate’s Choice

A rediscovered Louisa May Alcott literary treasure is set to follow in the footsteps of The Quiet Little Woman. From Little Women to The Inheritance, Louisa May Alcott has charmed generations of fans for more than 150 years. Her unrivaled legacy includes this rediscovered gem that begins…
‘According to her father’s wish, Kate was to live for a while with the families of each of her four uncles before she decided with which she would make her home. All were anxious to have her, one because of her money, another because her great grandfather had been a lord, a third hoped to secure her hand for the son of a close friend, while the fourth and best family loved her for herself alone. ‘They were worthy people, as the world goes busy, ambitious, and prosperous; and every one, old and young, was fond of bright, pretty, generous Kate. Each family was anxious to keep her, a little jealous of the rest, and very eager to know which she would choose. ‘But Kate surprised them all by saying…
Kate’s Choice has been updated for the modern reader by Stephen W. Hines, a writer and researcher who has discovered lost classics like Little House in the Ozarks by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Debby’s Debut

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The story of an ambitious woman who wants to achieve financial success at the cost of her relative’s integrity. A narrative that shows that true love can conquer all has been presented here. From the beginning, the story is captivating and entertaining!

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Love and Self Love

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Pauline’s Passion and Punishment

Wholesome and moralistic stories for children from the author of Little Women.

Perilous Play, And, Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy’s Curse

Louisa May Alcott 1832 1888 was a prolific and multi talented American writer. Amongst her works are passionate, fiery novels, moralistic and wholesome stories for children, philosophical essays and letters. Her overwhelming success however, was with Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy 1868, a semiautobiographical account of her childhood years with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part Two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives 1869 followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men 1871 detailed the characters and ways of Alcott’s nephews who lived with her at Orchard House in Concord, and Jo’s Boys 1886 completed the ‘March Family Saga. ‘

Scarlet Stockings

So peace was declared, and lasted unbroken for the remaining week of his stay, when he proposed to take Kate to the city for a little gayety. Miss Morgan openly approved the plan, but secretly felt as if the town was about to be depopulated, and tried to hide her melancholy in her substitute’s socks. They were not large enough, however, to absorb it all, and when Lennox went to make his adieu, it was perfectly evident that the Doctor’s Belle was out of tune.

The Baron’s Gloves

Two rather young women, Amy and Helen, traveling with an older uncle, are doing the ‘tour’ of Europe, and are supposedly soaking up education but secretly yearning for adventures and romance. At this wish for adventure, a pair of gloves suddenly drops beside them from a balcony above their hotel room near Coblentz. Ah, whose gloves? The two young men who enter the lives of these ladies are rich and eligible adventurers traveling through Europe, and agree to play a prank on the young women by becoming aides to their uncle.

Little Button Rose

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The Mysterious Key and What It Opened

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The Brownie and the Princess

A poor farmer’s daughter changes the life of a spoiled princess…
A fearless young girl saves her town from British soldiers…
Two elderly sisters come up with a plan to help a sickly child…
A country girl shows her city cousin that simple can be best…
From the author of the beloved classic little women come ten short stories to delight and charm. Throughout her life, Louisa May Alcott published many stories in children’s magazines, and now ten of the best of these tales have been collected here. Filled with characters who have all the warmth, liveliness, and appeal of Jo March and her sisters, these stories will open up a whole new world for Alcott fans, and remain every bit as captivating as when they were first written, over a century ago.

Civil War Hospital Sketches

Before Little Women brought her wider fame, Alcott achieved recognition for her accounts of her work as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital. Written during the winter of 1862 63, her lively dispatches revealed the desperate realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service.

Hospital Sketches

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library Literary Society is a non profit educational organization. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG So far, very good. Here was the will now for the way. At first sight not a foot of it appeared, but that didn’t matter, for the Periwinkles are a hopeful race; their crest is an anchor, with three cock a doodles crowing atop. They all wear rose colored spectacles, and are lineal descendants of the inventor of aerial architecture. An hour’s conversation on the subject set the whole family in a blaze of enthusiasm. A model hospital was erected, and each member had accepted an honorable post therein. The paternal P. was chaplain, the maternal P. was matron, and all the youthful P.s filled the pod of futurity with achievements whose brilliancy eclipsed the glories of the present and the past. Arriving at this satisfactory conclusion, the meeting adjourned, and the fact that Miss Tribulation was available as army nurse went abroad on the wings of the wind.

Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals

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The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott

The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott contains a broad cross section of letters from the correspondence of the creator of Little Women and provides a compelling autobiography of this most autobiographical of writers. Spanning a period of forty five years, this collection provides vivid accounts of Alcott’s life and development as a writer. Episodes in Alcott’s life are candidly reflected: her youth, when the prototype of Jo March was already being shaped; the 1868 publication of Little Women and the prosperity and renown the book brought its author; her never ending struggles for her family; the final years spent caring for her niece and an invalid father. Alcott’s letters also furnished a vent for the pressures she felt to write a sequel to Little Women and play matchmaker for the novel’s hero*ine. Writing to a friend in early 1869, Alcott remarked that ‘Jo should have remained a literary spinster but so many enthusiastic young ladies wrote to me clamorously demanding that she should marry Laurie, or somebody, that I didnt dare to refuse & out of perversity went & made a funny match for her. I expect vials of wrath to be poured out upon my head, but rather enjoy the prospect.’The correspondence sheds light on Alcott’s relationship with her publishers, such friends as Emerson and Thoreau, and members of her family. Of particular note are her observations many of them firsthand on such major issues of the day as abolition, the Civil War, and the women’s rights movement.

The Journals Of Louisa May Alcott

From her eleventh year to the month of her death at age fifty five, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals. She never intended them to be published, but the insights they provide into her remarkable life are invaluable. Alcott grew up in a genteel but impoverished household, surrounded by the literary and philosophical elite of nineteenth century New England, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Like her fictional alter ego, Jo March, she was a free spirit who longed for independence, yet she dutifully supported her parents and three sisters with her literary efforts. In the journals are to be found hints of Alcott’s surprisingly complex persona as well as clues to her double life as an author not only of ‘high’ literature but also of serial thrillers and Gothic romances. Associate editor Madeleine B. Stern has added an in depth introduction to The Journals Of Louisa May Alcott, the only unabridged edition of Alcott’s private diaries.

The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846

Excerpts from the girlhood diary of Louisa May Alcott, describing her family life, lessons, and experiences on a communal farm in the 1840s. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.

Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery

A passionate supporter of abolition and women’s rights, Louisa May Alcott championed these causes in gothic tales of interracial romance and in newspaper articles published during the Civil War. Drawn from her service as a nurse in a Union hospital as well as from her radical abolitionist activities, these writings allow Alcott to comment boldly on unstable racial identities, interracial sex and marriage, armed slave rebellion, war, and the links between the bondage of slaves and the conditions of white womanhood. A comprehensive introduction situates Alcott and her family within the network of antebellum reformers and unmasks her personal and literary struggles with the boundaries of race, sex, and class.

The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott

Excerpts from the girlhood diary of Louisa May Alcott, describing her family life, lessons, and experiences on a communal farm in the 1840s. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.

Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War

This collection of Civil War stories of one of America’s most beloved writers, Louisa May Alcott, includes the full text of ‘Hospital Sketches’ Alcott’s fictionalised account of her service as a nurse and eight dramatic short stories about the personal effects of the war. The historical narrative includes excerpts from her Civil War era journals, giving a glimpse into how real life inspired fiction, and the insightful introduction emphasises the impact that the Civil War had on Alcott’s writings.

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