Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Works

A Garland for Girls

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A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories

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A Modern Mephistopheles, and A Whisper in the Dark

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An Old-Fashioned Girl

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Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 1

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Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 2 / Shawl-Straps

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Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 5 / Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc.

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Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 6 / An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.

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Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Volume 3 / Cupid and Chow-chow, etc.

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Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Volume 4 / My Girls, etc.

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Behind a Mask; or, a Woman's Power

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Eight Cousins

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Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill

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Flower Fables

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Hospital Sketches

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Jack and Jill

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Jo's Boys

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Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories

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Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys

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Little Women

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Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

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Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals

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Lulu's Library, Volume 1 (of 3)

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Lulu's Library, Volume 2 (of 3)

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Lulu's Library, Volume 3 (of 3)

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Marjorie's Three Gifts

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May Flowers

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Moods

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Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair

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On Picket Duty, and Other Tales

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Pauline's Passion and Punishment

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Proverb Stories

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Rose in Bloom / A Sequel to 'Eight Cousins'

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Rose in Bloom / A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"

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Silver Pitchers: and Independence, a Centennial Love Story

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Spinning-Wheel Stories

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The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story

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The Candy Country

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The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School

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The Mysterious Key and What It Opened

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Three Unpublished Poems

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Under the Lilacs

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Work: A Story of Experience

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About the author

Louisa May Alcott

Language of works

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Born/died

1832 — 1888

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