Category: Classics

Lifespan: (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888)

Interesting & Unique Facts: Alcott's father was transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott. She was a nurse at the Union Hospital in Georgetown, D.C.

While the character Jo in Little Women was based on Louisa May Alcott, she, unlike Jo, never married. In her later life, Alcott became an advocate of women's suffrage and was the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Massachusetts.

You can visit Orchard House, Alcott's childhood home, in Concord, Massachusetts

Author's work in order (with publication dates):

• The Inheritance (1849) [unpublished until 1997]
• Flower Fables (1854)
• 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)
• Part Second of Little Women, also known as "Good Wives" (1869)
• An Old Fashioned Girl (1870)
• Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872-1882)
• Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
• Work: A Story of Experience (1872)
• 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)
• A Modern Mephistopheles (1877) [first published anonymously]
• Under the Lilacs (1878)
• Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)
• 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)

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)