Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888
Biographical note
American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. The novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters, and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts.
Works
- The Inheritance (1849, unpublished until 1997)
- Flower Fables (1849)
- Hospital Sketches (1863)
- The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864)
- Moods (1865, revised 1882)
- Morning-Glories and Other Stories (1867)
- The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867)
- Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868)
- Three Proverb Stories (includes "Kitty's Class Day", "Aunt Kipp" and "Psyche's Art") (1868)
- A Strange Island, (1868)
- Part Second of Little Women, also known as "Good Wives" (1869)
- Perilous Play (1869)
- An Old Fashioned Girl (1870)
- Will's Wonder Book (1870)
- Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872–1882)
- Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
- "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873)
- Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
- Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875)
- Beginning Again, Being a Continuation of Work (1875)
- Silver Pitchers, and Independence: A Centennial Love Story" (1876)
- Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to Eight Cousins (1876)
- Under the Lilacs (1878)
- 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 (1888)
- Comic Tragedies (1893 [posthumously])
- A Modern Mephistopheles [First published anonymously, 1877]
- Dr Dorn's Revenge
- Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse
- Pauline's Passion and Punishment
- Marjorie's Three Gifts
- The Mysterious Key and what It Opened
- The Louisa Alcott Reader
- Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
- A Modern Cinderella
- On Picket Duty, and Other Tales
Writing as A. M. Barnard
- Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (1866)
- The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (1867)
- A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866 - first published 1995)
