Louisa May Alcott: References & Edit History
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Biographies include Madeleine B. Stern, Louisa May Alcott (1950, reissued 1996); Martha Saxton, Louisa May (1977, reissued as Louisa May Alcott, 1995); and Ruth K. MacDonald, Louisa May Alcott (1983). Madeleine B. Stern (ed.), Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott (1984); Sarah Elbert, A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott’s Place in American Culture (1987); and Elizabeth Lennox Keyser, Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott (1993), offer criticism and interpretation.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: College of Western Idaho Pressbooks - Anthology of Earlier American Literature: College of Western Idaho - Louisa May Alcott. | Oct 10, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 25, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: College of Western Idaho Pressbooks - Anthology of Earlier American Literature: College of Western Idaho - Louisa May Alcott. | Nov 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Boston Women's Heritage Trail - Louisa May Alcott. | Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House. | Aug 30, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Marshall Libraries Pressbooks - Women Writers - Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. | Mar 21, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Louisa May Alcott. | Jan 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women. | Sep 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Boston Women�s Heritage Trail - Louisa May Alcott. | Aug 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Rebus Community - Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). | May 19, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Alcott: 'Not The Little Woman You Thought She Was'. | Jan 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Public Library - Louisa May Alcott. | Oct 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Louisa May Alcott. | Aug 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - Biography of Louisa May Alcott. | Jun 24, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Louisa May Alcott. | Jan 24, 2021 | ||
| Expanded the discussion of Little Women. | Dec 15, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Women's History Museum - Biography of Louisa May Alcott. | Nov 07, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Oct 30, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Women�s Hall of Fame - Biography of Louisa May Alcott. | May 22, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Women�s History Museum - Biography of Louisa May Alcott. | Oct 23, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Women's Hall of Fame - Biography of Louisa May Alcott. | Oct 23, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Children's Literature Network - Biography of Louisa May Alcott. | Aug 02, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Literature Network - Biography of Louisa May Alcott. | Feb 08, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Louisa May Alcott. | Feb 08, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Library Association - Biography of Louisa May Alcott. | Feb 08, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Louisa May Alcott. | Feb 08, 2013 | ||
| Added photograph. | Feb 18, 2011 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 14, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: American Studies at the University of Virginia - Biography of Louisa May Alcott. | Jul 18, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library - "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. | Jun 19, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library - "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. | Jun 13, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Domestic Goddesses. | Jun 09, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott. | Jun 02, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Little Men by Louisa May Alcott. | Jun 02, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: A Celebration of Women Writers - "An Old-Fashioned Girl" by Louisa M. Alcott. | Jun 02, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Orchard House - Home of the Alcotts. | May 23, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 17, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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