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 ...

A researcher believes he has a batch of 14 previously unattributed works written by the author of “Little Women” — under a pseudonym. Louisa May Alcott was known to publish under various ...

Author Louisa May Alcott, who portrayed liberated ... Emma Watson and Saoirse Ronan. Alcott "created colorful relatable characters … [and] introduced readers to educated strong female heroines ...

Abigail May Alcott’s influence on ... to persist. Louisa in turn dedicated all her early work, starting with her first novel at age 16, to her mother, who possessed a “nobility of character and ...

Before Louisa May Alcott published ... if any other stories written by Alcott were still out there. For example, in “Little Women,” Jo March – the character who most closely resembles ...

This year, a strange new fable has emerged in this holiday tradition — and the Christmas miracle is that it was written by none other than Louisa May Alcott. Alcott, of course, is most famous ...

With a hit movie last year based on her novel Little Women and a new book out this fall, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888 ... and wistful sighs abound as characters awaken to burgeoning desires ...

The find revealed a stunning friendship between Emily Dickinson, one of America's greatest poets and a women so shy she only talked to visitors through her door, and Louisa May Alcott, author of ...

Louisa May Alcott was heartsick when she checked into ... a tangle of letters that spells the names of the Wroth and Herbert characters in “Urania.” “That says something really interesting ...

Louisa May Alcott balked when her editor asked her ... So, too, with fictional characters like Jo March. Many readers today regard Jo as a tomboy who defies gendered stereotypes and blazes her ...