About the author

  Novels by the author

• Eight Cousins
• Jack and Jill
• Jo's Boys
• Little Men
• Little Women
• The Louisa Alcott Reader - A Supplement for Children
• An Old-Fashioned Girl
• Rose in Bloom
• Under the Lilacs
• Work: A Story of Experience

  Short stories by the author

• Flower Fables
• A Garland for Girls
• Hospital Sketches
• Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories
• Marjorie's Three Gifts
• A Modern Cinderella and other stories
• The Mysterious Key And What It Opened
• On Picket Duty and Other Tales
• Pauline's Passion and Punishment

  Writings on the author

• The struggle between sentiment and sensation in the writings of Louisa May Alcott
• Louisa May Alcott and the Roles of a Lifetime
• The Whipping Boy of Love:
  Atonement and Aggression in Alcott's Fiction

  Quotations

• Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
• I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
• It takes two flints to make a fire.