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Louisa May Alcott

Little Women: Or, Mary, Jo, Beth and Amy

Louisa May Alcott

A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

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A photograph of Louisa May Alcott.

Nonfiction That Rivals Little Women: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott is best known for Little Women, but she earned her first taste of celebrity as an essayist.

by Liz Rosenberg via Literary Hub on October 24, 2023

From the Battlefield to 'Little Women'

How Louisa May Alcott found a niche in observing the world around her.

by Jennifer Wilson via New York Review of Books on August 28, 2019

Charles Dickens as he appears when reading, Harper’s Weekly (December 7th, 1867).

A Christmas Carol In Nineteenth-Century America, 1844-1870

What were Americans' immediate responses to "A Christmas Carol," and how did Dickens' reading tours and eventual death reshape its meaning?

by Thomas Ruys Smith via Comparative American Studies on July 27, 2023

19th caricature of a dentist extracting a tooth

Sicko Doctors: Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America

American fiction of the 19th century often featured a cruel doctor, whose unfeeling fascination with bodily suffering readers found unnerving.

by Chelsea Davis via The Public Domain Review on July 1, 2020

Illustration of Jo and Beth from the 1869 edition of "Little Women."

On Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Looking to Louisa May Alcott's heroine for inspiration.

by Jenny Zhang via Literary Hub on August 23, 2019

Black and white photo of Boston’s Old Corner bookstore (1900).

Bookselling Out

“The Bookshop” tells the story of American bookstores in thirteen types. Its true subject is not how bookstore can survive, but how they should be.

by Dan Sinykin via The Baffler on October 16, 2024

The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy

Tomboys and the endless privileges accorded to white girls.

by Lisa Fagin Davis via Literary Hub on August 11, 2020

Katharine Hepburn, an iconic tomboy, cocking a gun in 1935.

Tomboys Were a Trend 100 Years Ago, but Mostly to Bring Up the Birth Rate for White Babies

Fear of diminishing broodstock got the gals going outdoors.

by Laura Smith via Timeline on June 21, 2017

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau: A Radical for All Seasons

The surprising persistence of Henry David Thoreau.

by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via The Nation on June 1, 2017

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