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4 unusual facts about Louisa May Alcott


Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

Among the writers publishing their stories in the weekly were Louisa May Alcott, H. Irving Hancock, Helen R. Martin, and Ellis Parker Butler.

Main Street Station Hotel and Casino and Brewery

Main Street Station offers a self-guided tour which includes a portion of the Berlin Wall, stained glass from the Lillian Russell Mansion, doors and facade from the Kuwait Royal Bank, doors from the George Pullman Mansion, Louisa May Alcott pullman car, chandeliers from the Coca-Cola building and Figaro Opera House, and various statues.

The Penderwicks

The National Book Award citation compares the novel to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and E. Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers.

Zheng Xiaocang

Zheng is also well known for his translation of American novels, especially his translation of Louisa May Alcott's works (including the Little Women, Little Men, etc.) are still considered as high quality and the best version.


Dear My Girls

Dear My Girls is a manhwa by Kim Hee-eun, based on the characters of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father is a 2007 biography by John Matteson of Louisa May Alcott, best known as the author of Little Women, and her father, Bronson Alcott, an American Transcendentalist philosopher and the founder of the Fruitlands utopian community.

Frances Brundage

In addition to ephemera, Brundage illustrated children's classics such as the novels of Louisa May Alcott, Johanna Spyri, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and traditional literary collections such as The Arabian Nights and the stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood.

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Sintram and his Companions and Undine are referred to in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; the character Jo mentions wanting them for Christmas in the first chapter of the book and finally receives them in chapter 22.

Martha Saxton

Professor Saxton has undertaken biographies of figures as diverse as 1950s bombshell Jayne Mansfield and nineteenth-century author and reformer Louisa May Alcott.

Work: A Story of Experience

Work: A Story of Experience, first published in 1873, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, set in the times before and after the American Civil War.


see also

The Flag of Our Union

Louisa May Alcott published work under a pen-name; she also wrote a manuscript for The Flag entitled "A Long Fatal Love Chase", but not published until 1995.