Louisa May Alcott is an unexpected inhabitant in the world of magazine editing. Her name is better known as the author of Little Women (1868-1869) and other children's stories, and her novels are now as often scrutinized by social historians as they...

Louisa May Alcott (29 November 1832-6 March 1888) still retains her reputation as one of America's best-loved writers of juveniles. That reputation was established with the publication of Little Women (1868-1869), a domestic novel for girls primarily...

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is one of America's best-known writers of juvenile fiction. She was also a reformer, working in the causes of temperance and women's suffrage. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pa., in 1832. She was the daughter of...

Alcott's stories of nineteenth-century domestic life include what is widely known as the quintessential women's novel: Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (1868). Her novels detailing the lives of Jo, Meg, Amy, Beth, their children,...

Born November 29, 1832Germantown, Pennsylvania Died March 6, 1888Roxbury, Massachusetts Writer and editor Louisa May Alcott. , New York. Reproduced by...

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three...

THE SELECTED LETTERS OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, edited by Joel Myerson, Daniel Shely and Madeleine B. Stern. Little, Brown. 352 pp. $24.95. Illustrated. On Christmas, 1856, at 24, Louisa May Alcott was away from her family in Concord and working in Boston...

Guess who's coming to dinner? Louisa May Alcott. That's right, friends, for a mere $150, Marianne Donnelly, a Cambridge-based artist, will enliven your dinner party with her impersonation of Alcott and her interpretation of the author's art. But that's not all folks. She'll be...

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells started school at such a young age that she later said she couldn't remember how old she was when she first set foot in a classroom. Wells' earliest memory was reading the newspaper to her father and his friends....

Here I am again, reluctantly counting my losses. Beloved, hated or just plain “Who cares?”, more celebrated people died in 2007 than any year in my memory. I always forget somebody, but here is the nucleus of the ones who will light up the headlines...

In the following excerpt, Shealy views Alcott as "a pioneer in American fantasy literature. "

In the following essay, a version of which was presented at the National Women's Studies Association Conference in May, 1980, Halttunen examines the role of the "parlor theatrical" in Alcott's fiction, noting that the popularity of this dramatic form reflected idealized conceptions of the role of the family during the Victorian era.

In the following chapter from a critical study of Alcott, Elbert examines how Alcott's novel Moods examines social and moral questions associated with relationships between the sexes.

A biography of Louisa May Alcott.