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Louisa May Alcott
Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
Scope: Although well-known
for her publication of famed novel “Little Women,” 19th
century American author Louisa May Alcott, published
numerous short stories. Education, women’s rights, and
reform in general were the subjects for her writings.
Since Alcott spent most of her life in Concord,
Massachusetts and surrounding towns, she brings 19th
century New England life to modern readers. (Facts on
File Companion to the American Short Story)
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of Louisa May Alcott’s works are listed in the
Baddour Library on-line catalog under “Alcott, Louisa
May,” and under individual titles, i.e. “Little Women”
Books written by and about Louisa May Alcott have the
call number(s) PS 1016.L588
Some representative books from the circulating
collection located upstairs in the library are:
MacDonald, Ruth K.
Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983.
McSherry, Frank.
Civil War Women: The Civil War as Seen Through Women’s
Eyes in
Stories by Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Eudora Welty,
and Other Great
Women Writers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Showalter, Elaine.
Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American
Women’s Writing. New York: Oxford University Press,
1991.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference collection that do not
circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following
titles are appropriate for this topic.
PS21.D5 Vol. 1 The Dictionary of Literary Biography, The
American Renaissance in New England
PS 374.S5F33 2000 The Facts on File Companion to the
American Short Story
PS 147.O94 1995 The Oxford Companion to Women’s writing
in the United States
PS 21.E537 2004 The Oxford Encyclopedia of American
literature
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
Click the
link for a list of full text journals available through
our databases in:
WEB SITES
A Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women
Maintained by John Mark Okerbloom from On-Line Books
Page in conjunction with Universal Library Project.
Significant women writers indexed by author, century,
and country. Bibliographies provided.
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
Authored by Alan Liu from the University of California,
this is an excellent and very comprehensive literature
site with links to thousands of web sites in all areas
of the humanities. Easily accessed and easy to navigate.
The homepage links to menus from 25 areas, from
anthropology to women's studies.
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Updated
02/08/2007
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