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The World of Louisa May Alcott : A first-time glimpse into the life and times of Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women". Internet Archive. New York : HarperPerennial. ISBN 978-0-06-095156-6. Cheever, Susan (2011) [2010]. Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography (1st ed.). Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1416569923.
Little Women has been one of the most widely read novels, noted by Stern from a 1927 report in The New York Times and cited in Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays. [55] Ruth MacDonald argued that "Louisa May Alcott stands as one of the great American practitioners of the girls' novel and the family ...
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father is a 2007 biography by John Matteson of Louisa May Alcott, best known as the author of Little Women, and her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, an American transcendentalist philosopher and the founder of the Fruitlands utopian community. Eden's Outcasts won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for ...
Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott. G. K. Hall and Company. ISBN 0-8161-8686-3. Strickland, Charles (1985). Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-9043-3 – via Internet Archive. Ullom, Judith C., ed. (1969). Louisa May Alcott: An Annotated, Selected Bibliography ...
Meigs portrays Bronson Alcott and the oldest daughter, Anna, as being fully committed to the ideals of this new life, but says that Louisa and her mother understand how much hard work would be necessary for a communal farm to succeed. The contrast between idealistic and practical is shown when Bronson and the only other adult leave the area for ...
Moods is the first novel published by Louisa May Alcott in 1864. She disliked the final result after the editing process and published a revised version in 1882. The novel depicts the life of young Sylvia Yule as she navigates growing from a girl to a woman and seeking true friendship.
An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott first published in 1869, which follows the adventures of Polly Milton, a young country girl, who is visiting her wealthy city friends, the Shaws. The novel shows how Polly remains true to herself despite the pressure the Shaws' world puts on her shoulders.
Shepard wrote a biography of Bronson Alcott, the father of writer Louisa May Alcott and one of the foremost Transcendentalists: Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott, published by Little, Brown in 1937, [5] for which he won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. [2] His papers are held at Trinity College. [3] He died in ...