Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.
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Selected works
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The "Little Women" trilogy
- Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868)
There is a Part Second of Little Women, also known as "Good Wives", published in 1869; and afterward published together with Little Women.
- Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
- Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" (1886)
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Other novels
- The Inheritance (1849, unpublished until 1997)
- Moods (1865, revised 1882)
- The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867)
- An Old Fashioned Girl (1870)
- Will's Wonder Book (1870)
- Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
- Beginning Again, Being a Continuation of Work (1875)
- Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875)
- Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to Eight Cousins (1876)
- Under the Lilacs (1878)
- Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)
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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)
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Published anonymously
- A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
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Short story collections for children
- Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872–1882). (66 short stories in six volumes)
- 1. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
- 2. Shawl-Straps
- 3. Cupid and Chow-Chow
- 4. My Girls, Etc.
- 5. Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc.
- 6. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.
- Lulu's Library (1886–1889) A collection of 32 short stories in three volumes.
- Flower Fables (1849)
- On Picket Duty, and other tales (1864)
- Morning-Glories and Other Stories (1867) Eight fantasy stories and four poems for children, including: *A Strange Island, (1868); * The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864), A Christmas Song, Morning Glories, Shadow-Children, Poppy's Pranks, What the Swallows did, Little Gulliver, The Whale's story, Goldfin and Silvertail.
- Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories (Three Proverb Stories), 1868, (includes "Kitty's Class Day", "Aunt Kipp" and "Psyche's Art")
- Spinning-Wheel Stories* (1884). A collection of 12 short stories.
- The Candy Country (1885) (One short story)
- May Flowers (1887) (One short story)
- Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair (1887) (One short story)
- A Garland for Girls (1888). A collection of eight short stories.
- The Brownie and the Princess (2004). A collection of ten short stories.
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Other short stories and novelettes
- Hospital Sketches (1863)
- Pauline's Passion and Punishment
- Perilous Play, (1869)(One short story)
- Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse
- Transcendental Wild Oats (1873) A Short story about Alcott's family and the Transcendental Movement.
- Silver Pitchers, and Independence: A Centennial Love Story" (1876)
- Comic Tragedies (1893 [posthumously])
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