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Chapter 5: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
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Hospital Sketches, 1863; Moods, 1864 (rev. 1882); Little Women 1868-69; Little Men, 1871; Work: A Story of Experience, 1873; Transcendental Wild Oats, 1873; Eight Cousins,1874; Rose in Bloom, 1876; A Modern Mephistopheles, 1877; Jo's Boys, 1866; The Selected Letters, 1987; The Journals, 1989.
Selected Bibliography 1980-Present
Bedell, Madelon. The Alcotts: Biography of a Family. 1980
Boyd, Anne E. Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004.
Cheney, Ednah. ed. Louisa May Alcott, her life, letters, and journals. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. PS1018 .A3
Delamar, Gloria T. Louisa May Alcott and "Little Women": Biography, Critique, Publications, Poems, Songs, and Contemporary Relevance. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.
Doyle, Christine. Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic Translations. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2000.
Eiselein, Gregory. ed. The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001.
Elbert, Monika. intro. The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860. NY: Ironweed, 2000.
- - -. intro. The Uncollected Works of Louisa May Alcott, I: Short Stories. NY: Ironweed, 2001.
Elbert, Sarah. A hunger for home: Louisa May Alcott's place in American culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1987. PS1018 .E4
- - -. ed. Louisa May Alcott on Race, Sex, and Slavery. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1997.
Keyser, Elizabeth L. Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1995.
MacDonald, Ruth K. Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Twayne, 1983. PS1018 .M28
Marsella, Joy A. The Promise of Destiny: Children and Women in the Short Stories of Louisa May Alcott. 1983.
Payne, Alma J. Louisa May Alcott, a reference guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. Z8024.8 .P39
Shealy, Daniel. ed. Alcott in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2005.
Showalter, Elaine. Alternative Alcott. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1988.
- - -. ed. Little Women; Little Men; Jo's Boys. NY: Library of America, 2005.
Stern, Madeleine B. Critical essays on Louisa May Alcott. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984. PS1018 .C7
---, Joel Myerson, and Daniel Shealy. eds. The Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Little Brown, 1988.
---. Freaks of Genius: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. NY: Greenwood, 1991.
- - -. ed. Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1995.
- - -. ed. The Feminist Alcott: Stories of a Woman's Power. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1996.
- - -. Louisa May Alcott: From Blood and Thunder to Hearth and Home. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1998.
Strickland, Charles. Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott. 1985.
MLA Style Citation of this Web Page
Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 5: Louisa May Alcott." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL:http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/lalcott.html (provide page date or date of your login).
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