JOURNALS, CORRESPONDENCE, AND
BIOGRAPHY
Louisa May Alcott—Journals
Bronson Alcott—Journals
Louisa May Alcott, Bronson Alcott, and Thomas Niles—Correspondence on
Little Women
Louisa M. Alcott—Recollections of My Childhood
Madeleine B. Stern—From Louisa May Alcott: A Biography
LITERARY CONTEXTS FOR LITTLE
WOMEN
John Bunyan—From The Pilgrim’s Progress
[The Palace Beautiful]—[The Valley of Humiliation
and Apollyon]
[The Valley of the Shadow of Death]—[Vanity Fair]—[Green Meadows]
[The Author’s Way of Sending Forth His Second
Part of the Pilgrim]
[Great-Heart]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe—From Wilhelm Meister’s
Apprenticeship
[Mignon’s Song]
Maria Edgeworth—The Purple Jar
“Jo” [Louisa May Alcott] and “Meg”
[Anna B. Alcott Pratt]—Norna; or, The Witche’s
Curse
L.M.A. [Louisa May Alcott]—The Masked Marriage
L.M.A. [Louisa May Alcott]—The Sister’s Trial
[Louisa May Alcott]—A Modern Cinderella; or, The Little
Old Shoe
L. M. Alcott—Tilly’s Christmas
Cousin Tribulation [Louisa May Alcott]—Merry’s
Monthly Chat
NINETEENTH-CENTURY REVIEWS
From the Nation
From the Albany Evening Journal
From the Youth’s Companion
From the American Literary Gazette and Publisher’s
Circular
From Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine
From the Lady’s Friend
From the Ladies’ Repository
From Godey’s Lady’s Book
From the Galaxy
From the Spectator
From the Commonwealth
From the National Anti-Slavery Standard
From the Nation
From the Hartford Courant
From Catholic World
From Putnam’s Magazine
From the Galaxy
From the Ladies’ Repository
From Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
From the London Graphic
MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS
Elizabeth Vincent—Subversive Miss Alcott
Anne Dalke—“The House-Band”: The Education
of Men in Little Women
Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant—Dismembering
the Text: The Horror of Louisa May Alcott’s Little
Women
Catharine R. Stimpson—Reading for Love: Canon, Paracanons,
and Whistling Jo March
Elizabeth Keyser—Portrait(s) of the Artist: Little
Women
Richard H. Brodhead—Starting out in the 1860s: Alcott,
Authorship, and the Postbellum Literary Field
Barbara Sicherman—Reading Little Women: The
Many Lives of a Text
