People best know American writer Louisa May Alcott for Little Women (1868), her largely autobiographical novel. 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) First published anonymously: A Modern Mephistopheles (1877) Philosopher-teacher Amos Bronson Alcott, educated his four daughters, Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth and May and Abigail May, wife of Amos, reared them on her practical Christianity. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, where visits to library of Ralph Waldo Emerson, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at Hillside (now "Wayside") of Nathaniel Hawthorne enlightened her days. Like Jo March, her character in Little Women, young Louisa, a tomboy, claimed: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race, ... and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences...." Louisa wrote early with a passion. She and her sisters often acted out her melodramatic stories of her rich imagination for friends. Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens." At 15 years of age in 1847, the poverty that plagued her family troubled her, who vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!" Confronting a society that offered little opportunity to women, seeking employment, Louisa determined "...I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world." Whether as a teacher, seamstress, governess, or household servant, Louisa ably found work for many years. Career of Louisa as an author began with poetry and short stories in popular magazines. In 1854, people published Flower Fables, her first book, at 22 years of age. From her post as a nurse in Washington, District of Columbia, during the Civil War, she wrote home letters that based Hospital Sketches (1863), a milestone along her literary path. Thomas Niles, a publisher in Boston, asked 35-year-old Louisa in 1867 to write "a book for girls." She wrote Little Women at Orchard House from May to July 1868. Louisa and her sisters came of age in the novel, set in New England during Civil War. From her own individuality, Jo March, the first such American juvenile heroine, acted as a living, breathing person rather than the idealized stereotype that then prevailed in fiction of children. Louisa published more than thirty books and collections of stories. Only two days after her father predeceased her, she died, and survivors buried her body in Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord.
Series
Books
Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag
Volume 6
1882
Góticas y tenebrosas
Mujeres que cuentan historias oscuras
2021
Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
1882
Little Women Abroad
The Alcott Sisters' Letters from Europe, 1870-1871
2008
Mujercitas
1997
Little Women - Lined Journal & Novel
2024
Les quatre filles du docteur March
2012
A Whisper in the Dark
Twelve Thrilling Tales
1996
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War
2006
Perilous Play
2009
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1
2017
A Marble Woman
Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
1865
Les Quatre Soeurs March
2023
The Baron's Gloves
2005
A Classic Christmas
A Collection of Timeless Stories and Poems
1843
Le nostre teste audaci. Lettere dalla creatrice delle sorelle March
2021
Sisters
Vintage Minis
2017
A Double Life
Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
1988
Hospital Sketches
1863
A Christmas Turkey
2016
Louisa May Alcott
1980
The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860
2000
The Big Book of Christmas
140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols
2020
Jo's Boys
1886
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol
4
2024
Les quatre filles du docteur March
2021
Little Women
2016
Little Men
1871
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol
2
2019
What Love Can Do
2014
A Louisa May Alcott Christmas Book and Charm
Selected Holiday Stories and Poems
2004
Little Women / Little Men
1886
The Complete Little Women
Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys
2010
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
1867
Le piccole donne crescono
1868
Little Women and Other Novels
2018
Louisa May Alcott's Little Women at Christmas
1999
Louisa May Alcott
Her Life, Letters, and Journals
1889
Becky's Christmas Dream
2017
A Long Fatal Love Chase
1995
Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury
2002
The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation
2017
Gwen's Adventure in the Snow
2017
Silver Pitchers
and Independence, a Centennial Love Story
2007
The Eight Cousins Series
2011
A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories
1875
Modern Magic
1995
Little Women
1977
Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse
1869
Little Women
1995
Little Women
Part Second
2020
Christmas Tales and Stories
2009
Jack and Jill
1880
The Feminist Alcott
Stories of a Woman's Power
1996
Hidden Louisa May Alcott
2 Volumes in One
1984
Little Women
2005
More Favorite Stories of Christmas Past
2008
The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott
2001
Lulu's Library - Complete Collection
1886
A Country Christmas
2005
Diana and Persis
1978
Perilous Play, And, Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse
1869
Pauline's Passion and Punishment
1862
Work
A Story of Experience
1873
The Quiet Little Woman
1999
Spinning-wheel Stories
1884
Little Women
2002
Women Who Wrote
Stories and Poems from Audacious Literary Mavens
2020
A Modern Mephistopheles and Taming a Tartar
1877
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
Volume 4
1905
A Modern Mephistopheles
1877
Debby's Debut
2004
The Selected Letters
1987
Piccole donne
I quattro libri
1868
New Way to Spend Christmas, A A
2017
Civil War Memoirs of Louisa May Alcott
2015
The Ultimate Christmas Collection
2020
Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories
1869
Tilly's Christmas
2013
Plots and counterplots
More unknown thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
1976
A Strange Life
Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott
2023
Louisa May Alcott
Her Girlhood Diary
1993
Rosa's Tale
2017
Storie di Natale
2020
A Hospital Christmas
2017
Малки жени
2020
A Christmas Dream
1885
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
1868
A Classic Christmas
A Collection of Timeless Stories and Poems
2019
A Timeless Christmas
A Collection of Classic Stories and Poems
2020
My Contraband
2025
The Brownie and the Princess & Other Stories
2004
Little Women
1800
Cupid and Chow Chow
1873
Under the Lilacs
1878
Little Women
1868
Sirenitas
2015
El gran libro de los gatos
Los mejores relatos, ensayos y poemas de la literatura felina universal
2019
Little Women
The Screenplay
2019
Little Women
2023
A Whisper in the Dark
1877
From Jo March's Attic
Stories of Intrigue and Suspense
1993
More Favorite Stories of Christmas Past
2008
The Candy Country
1885
Little Women
1994
Eight Cousins
1874
The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott
1993
The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott
1605
Little Women
1997
A Modern Cinderella
1860
I racconti di Natale di Louisa May Alcott
2023
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100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1]
2020
Good Wives
1869
The Poems of Louisa May Alcott
2000
The Portable Louisa May Alcott
2000
Christmas with Louisa May Alcott
2021
The Journals of Louisa May Alcott
1989
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A Timeless Tale of Sisterhood, Love, and Resilience
2024
The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)
Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern ... and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
1982
A Vintage Christmas
A Collection of Classic Stories and Poems
2018
Short Stories
1968
The Puffin in Bloom Collection
2015
The Inheritance
1849
Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power
1866
Kate's Choice
2001
Classic Crimes of Passion
1998
Little Women
2021
Little Women
2023
Little Women
2019
The Snow Queen and Other Winter Tales
1911
The Rose Family
A Fairy Tale
1864
Piccole Donne
1989
Moods
1864
The Brothers
1863
Nell's Hospital
1976
EL MANTEL DE TABBY
2010
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May ( Author ) ON Sep-27-2001, Paperback
1633
Behind a Mask
The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
1867
Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories
1992
Alternative Alcott
1988
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 3
2007
Les Quatre Filles du docteur March
1998
Piccole donne
1868
Louisa May Alcott Unmasked
Collected Thrillers
1995
An Old-Fashioned Girl
1870
Flower Fables
1854
Les quatre filles du docteur March
1868
Tessa's Surprises
2017
Rose in Bloom
1876
The Christmas Stories of Louisa May Alcott
2013
On Picket Duty and Other Tales
1864
The Death of a Soldier
1863
Little Women Collection
Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More
2015
Cousin Tribulation's Story
2017
