In her new book, the historian Tiya Miles shows how formative outdoor experiences helped diverse women — from Harriet Tubman to Indigenous athletes — transcend prescribed social and gender roles. By ...

One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, in a house in Concord, Massachusetts, Louisa May Alcott wrote one of the most beloved books in American literature, "I don't remember ever not knowing what 'Little ...

She wrote lurid, sensational stories before Little Women. Like her heroine Jo March, Louisa May Alcott wrote, published, and supported her family with what she called “blood and thunder tales”—gothic ...

In January, 1861, Louisa May Alcott began writing a novel that she planned to call “Success.” Alcott was twenty-eight and living at Orchard House, the family home in Concord, Massachusetts. That same ...

Your interactions with Louisa May Alcott have been limited, for the most part. You’re able to read her books and stroll by her Beacon Hill home, but that’s about it. On Monday, you can go a step ...

WORCESTER, Mass. — The author of “Little Women” may have been even more productive and sensational than previously thought. Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, ...

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: A PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY By Susan Cheever Simon & Schuster, $26 298 pages, illustrated Ever since the mid-20th century, when Madeleine Stern discovered that Louisa May Alcott had ...

Author Louisa May Alcott, who portrayed liberated, thoughtful and independent women at a time when her message conflicted with social norms, was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on this ...

“I am more than half-persuaded that I am, by some freak of nature, a man’s soul put into a woman’s body.” “Always believing she should have been born a boy,” writes John Matteson, in Eden’s Outcasts, ...

A researcher believes he has a batch of 14 previously unattributed works written by the author of “Little Women” — under a pseudonym. Louisa May Alcott was known to publish under various names ...

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT is an interesting person for herself, as a representative of the generally unappreciated but fascinating Alcott family, and as an example of the period when the New England mind was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Louisa May Alcott began to write ...