An illustration and title page to the book Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, appear in an 1869 edition of the book at Orchard House, in Concord, Mass. Since "Little Women" was published 150 years ...

On Nov. 29, 1880, Louisa May Alcott celebrated her 48th birthday ... with brown cloth binding and black-and-white illustrations. Abigail Lee can be reached at [email protected].

Author Louisa May Alcott, who portrayed liberated, thoughtful and independent women at a time when her message conflicted with social norms, was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on ...

Louisa May Alcott inspired generations of girls with her own portrait in "Little Women" as rowdy, moody Jo March, who wished she had been born a boy, loved to run and skate, wrote plays with ...

Louisa May Alcott was known to publish under various names throughout her writing career, but this discovery marks the first time any new pseudonym has been linked to Alcott since the 1940s.

Louisa May Alcott, the author of “Little Women,” may have written more works than readers were aware of, thanks to a scholar who made an interesting discovery. Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral ...

Louisa May Alcott balked when her editor asked her ... “‘Ambiguous gender identification’ is such a perfect illustration of how scholars see it, and they simply refuse to call it like ...

and Louisa May Alcott, among many other young women, showing how they explored and reinvented themselves in the outdoors, among both the flowers and the weeds. “By thinking and acting outside ...

Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, believes he found about 20 stories and poems written by Louisa May Alcott under her own name as well as pseudonyms for ...