Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known for her book Little Women, based on her life with her sisters Anna, Elizabeth and May. She wrote three books under the pseudonym A.B. Barnard.

Louisa May Alcott was tutored by her father and helped by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller. She grew up poor and made a vow at an early age to get herself and her family out of poverty. She wrote her first novel in 1849, although it would not be published until 1997. Her first well received book was the semi-autobiographical Little Women, published in 1868.

• The Inheritance (1849 - published in 1997)
• Flower Fables (1854)
• Hospital Sketches (1863)
• The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864)
• Moods (1865)
• Morning-Glories and Other Stories (1867)
• The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867)
• Little Women (1868)
• Three Proverb Stories (1868)
• Part Second 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)
• Work: A Story of Experience (1872)
• Eight Cousins (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 (1889)
• A Garland for Girls (1888)
• Comic Tragedies (1893)

• Behind a Mask (1866)
• The Abbot's Ghost (1867)
• A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866 - published in 1995)

• "I will do something by and by. Don't care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I'll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won't."

• November, 29 1832: Born

• 1834: Family moves to Boston, Massachusetts

• 1840: Family moves to Concord, Massachusetts

• 1849: The Inheritance (Not published until 1997)

• 1854: Flower Fables published

• 1863: Hospital Sketches published

• 1866: Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (Written as A.M. Barnard) published

• 1866: A Long Fatal Love Chase (Written as A.M. Barnard, published in 1995)

• 1867: The Mysterious Key and What It Opened published

• 1868: Little Women published

• 1869: Part II of Little Women published

• 1871: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys published

• 1872: Work: A Story of Experience published

• 1875: Eight Cousins published

• 1886: Jo's Boys published

• 1888: A Garland for Girls published

• 1888: Died on March 6

• Note: The majority of the links in this list are to IMDb, which has Pop-ups

• 1918: Little Women

• 1933: Little Women

• 1949: Little Women

• 1949: An Old-Fashioned Girl

• 1994: Little Women

• 1997: The Inheritance

• 1998: Little Men

• 2005: Little Women Musical