Female : Novelist. Daughter of A B Alcott. Lived most of her life in Boston

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Germantown, Pennsylvania

Date of Birth : 1832 Date of Death : 1888 Age : 56

Other Work : Schoolteacher. Nurse during the Civil War

1855-1865
Flower Fables (1855 Briggs, US)
On Picket Duty (1864 James Redpath, US)

1866-1870
Moods (1866 Routledge)
Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy (1868 Sampson Low)
[Filmed in 1933, 1949 & 1994]
Good Wives (Part2 of Little Women) (1869 Sampson Low)
Hospital Sketches and Camp & Fireside Stories (1869 Roberts Bros) (1870 Sampson Low)
[Reflects her experiences as nurse for the Union during the Civil War]
An Old Fashioned Girl (1870 Sampson Low) (1870 Roberts Bros)
Three Proverb : Stories (1870 Loring, Boston)

1871-1875
Little Men : Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871 Sampson Low) (1871 Roberts)
My Boys : Vol 1. of 'Aunt Jo's Scrapbag' (1871 Sampson Low)
[Generally thought to be the true first edition]
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872 Roberts, Boston)
Shawl Straps : Vol 2. of 'Aunt Jo's Scrapbag' (1873 Sampson Low)
Cupid and Chow Chow & Other Stories : Vol 3. of 'Aunt Jo's Scrapbag' (1873 Sampson Low)
Something To Do (1873 Ward Lock)
Fireside and Camp Stories (1873 Ward Lock)
Work , A Story of Experience (1873 Sampson Low) - 2 vols
Work , A Story of Experience (1873 Roberts Bros)
Eight Cousins, or The Aunt Hill (1875 Sampson Low)
Beginning Again : Being a Continuation of "Work" (1875 Sampson Low)

1876-1880
Silver Pitchers & Other Stories (1876 Roberts Bros, Boston) (1876 Sampson Low)
The Horn of Plenty (1876 Gill) - et al
A Modern Mephistopheles (1877 Sampson Low)
Rose in Bloom : A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" (1876 Sampson Low) (1876 Roberts)
Under the Lilacs (1877-8 Sampson Low) - issued in 11 monthly parts (1878 Roberts)
Under the Lilacs (1878) - first one vol ed
Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore : Vol 5. of 'Aunt Jo's Scrapbag' (1879 Sampson Low)
Jack and Jill (1880 Sampson Low)

1881-1885
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving & Other Stories : Vol 6 of 'Aunt Jo's Scrapbag'
(1882 Sampson Low)
Proverb Stories (1882 Sampson Low)
Spinning Wheel Stories (1884 Sampson Low)

1886-1900
Lulu's Library : Tales (1886 Sampson Low)
Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out (1886 Roberts Bros, Boston) (1886 Sampson Low)
A Garland for Girls (1888 Roberts Bros) (1888 Blackie)
A Hole in the Wall (1889 BLB) - 1st Separate Ed
Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters & Journals (1889 Roberts, Boston)- Edited by Ednah D Cheney
Louisa May Alcott : The Children's Friend (1889 Sampson Low)
[Same as above title]
Recollections of My Childhood Days (1890 Sampson Low)
Comic Tragedies : Written by Jo and Meg (1893 Roberts) (1893 Sampson Low)
[Jo is Acott, and Meg is A B Pratt]

20thC Editions
Good Wives
(1905 Seeley) - H M Brock
(1911 G Bell) - M V Wheelhouse
(1913 RTS) - Harold Copping
(1953 Dent) - S Van Abbe

An Old Fashioned Girl
(1907 Sampson Low) - Jessie Willcox Smith
(1928 Phila) - Clara M Burd

Little Women
(1908 Seeley) - H M Brock
(1909 Bell) - M V Wheelhouse
(1912 RTS) - Harold Copping
(1915 Little Brown) - Jessie Willcox Smith
(1922 H & S) - Millicent E Gray
(1922 Harrap) - Percy Tarrant
(1948 Dent) - S van Abbe
(1949 Gawthorn) - Rene Cloke
(1967 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Henry C Pitz

Little Men
(1928 Phila) - Clara M Burd
(1932 Little Brown) - Reginald Birch

Jo's Boys
(1933 Little Brown) - Clara M Burd
Jo's Boys (1960 Dent) - Harry Toothill

Others
Pansies and Water Lilies (1902 Little Brown)
The Louise Alcott Girls' Book (1941 Harrap) - Percy Tarrant
Hospital Sketches (1960 Belknap Press, US)
Rose in Bloom (1967 Hart Davis) - Rodney Shackell
Behind the Mask : The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa M Alcott (1976 W H Allen)
Plots and Counter-Plots (1977 W H Allen)
The Chase (1995 Century £12.99)

READING
Ednah D Cheney : Louisa May Alcott - Her Life, Letters and Journals
(1889 Roberts Bros, Boston) (1889 Sampson Low)
Belle Moses : Louisa May Alcott - Dreamer & Worker (1909 Appleton, NY)
Cornelia M Meigs : Invincible Louisa (1933)
(In UK as "The Story of Louisa Alcott" 1936 Harrap)
Madeleine B Stern : Louisa May Alcott (1952 Peter Nevill)
C O Peare : Louisa M Alcott (1963 Dennis Dobson)
Martha Saxton : Louisa May - A Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott (1977 Boston)