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Louisa May Alcott
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American novelist; best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys; occasionally used the pseudonym A. M. Barnard.
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Works

The Inheritance (1849, unpublished until 1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
Flower Fables (1855)
Hospital Sketches (1863)
The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864)
Moods (1864); later rev. 1882
Morning-Glories and Other Stories (1867)
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867)
Three Proverb Stories (1868) (external scan)
Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868)
- Part I
- Part II
An Old Fashioned Girl (1870)
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872-1882)
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
- Volume 3 (transcription project)
- Volume 4 (transcription project)
- Volume 5
- Volume 6
Transcendental Wild Oats (1873)
Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
Beginning Again, Being a Continuation of "Work," (1875)
Eight Cousins; or, The Aunt-Hill (1875) (transcription project)
Silver Pitchers, and Independence: A Centennial Love Story (1876)
Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins," 1876) (transcription project)
A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
Under the Lilacs (1877)
Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)
The Candy Country (1885)
Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men," (1886)
Lulu's Library (1886-1889)
A Garland for Girls (1893) (transcription project)
- A Garland for Girls (1905) (transcription project) (Missing one illus. plate)
Comic Tragedies Written by "Jo" and "Meg" and Acted by the "Little Women," (1893)
Good Wives (transcription project)
Pauline's Passion and Punishment
Silk Stockings

As "A.M. Barnard"

The following works were published using the pseudonym A. M. Barnard.

Pauline's Passion and Punishment (1863)
Behind A Mask or, A Woman's Power (1866)
A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866—first published 1995)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (1867)

Short stories

The Brothers
Debby's Debut
Enigmas (1864)
Marjorie's Three Gifts
“Mr. A’s Journey Through the Alphabet” (1860)^[1]
A Modern Cinderella, or The Little Old Shoe (1860)
My Mysterious Mademoiselle (1869)
Nelly's Hospital
On Picket Duty and Other Tales (1864)
Scarlet Stockings
Street Scenes in Washington
The Hospital Lamp

Poetry

“Faith” (1856)^[1]
“The Factory Girl” (1857)^[1]
"Thoreau's Flute" (Sep 1863—first publ. 1950), an elegy for Thoreau (external scan)
"Our Little Ghost" (1875)
"A Christmas Song"

As E. H. Gould

E. H. Gould is reputedly a pseudonym used by Alcott.^[1]

"The Wayside" (in Sweet Home; or, Friendship's Golden Altar, 1856)

Works about Alcott

"Alcott, Amos Bronson," in The American Cyclopædia (1879) [Louisa May is discussed at the end of this article about her father.]
"Miss Alcott", in Daughters of Genius (1887) by James Parton
"Alcott, Amos Bronson," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900) [Louisa May is discussed at the end of this article about her father.]
"Alcott, Louisa May," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Alcott, Louisa May," in The Biographical Dictionary of America, (ed.) by Rossiter Johnson, Boston: American Biographical Society (1906)
"Alcott, Louisa M.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Alcott, Louisa May," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Alcott, Louisa May," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"Alcott, Louisa May," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Alcott, Louisa May," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
"Louisa May Alcott," in A Woman of the Century, (ed.) by Frances Elizabeth Willard and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton (1893)
"Alcott, Louisa May," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)

Obituaries

Louisa M. Alcott Dead in New York Times March 7, 1888

References

1 2 3 4 Max L. Chapnick (March 2023). "New Louisa May Alcott Pieces: Radical Sensation in a Culture of Ambiguous Attribution". J19 (in English) 11 (1): 171–185. ISSN 2166-742X. doi:10.1353/JNC.2023.A909300. Wikidata Q123505925.

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1931, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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[Chapnick-1] 1 2 3 4 Max L. Chapnick (March 2023). "New Louisa May Alcott Pieces: Radical Sensation in a Culture of Ambiguous Attribution". J19 (in English) 11 (1): 171–185. ISSN 2166-742X. doi:10.1353/JNC.2023.A909300. Wikidata Q123505925.

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