Louisa May Alcott

Born in Pennsylvannia (USA) in 1832, she moved to Boston where she spent the rest of her life. Although she is best remembered for her novel "Little Women" which was published in 1868, her first novel was "Moods" which was published two years before in 1866.

She went on to write many successful books before she finally died in 1888. One of her most sort after books, apart from the obvious, is "Good Wives" published in 1869 by Sampson Low.

Biographies

"May Alcott: a memoir" by C Tickner, Little & Brown, Boston, USA, 1928.
"Invincible Louisa", Cornelia Meigs, Little & Brown, Boston, USA, 1933.
(Published under the title The Life of Louisa Alcott by Harrap, London, 1936.)
" Louisa May Alcott", by Anthony Katherine, Cresset Press, London, 1939.
"Marmee, the Mother of Little Women", by Sandford Salyer, Oklahoma University Press, 1949.
" Louisa May Alcott", by Madeleine Stern Peter Nevill, London, 1952.

Her Works

The Inheritance (1849, unpublished until 1997)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)
Second Part 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)
"Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873)
Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
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)
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)

Authored under the mane of 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) First published anonymously
A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)