Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888):

  List of Works

Year Compiled: 1997

Scope

This document identifies, to the best of my knowledge, all of the writings of the nineteenth-century American author, Louisa May Alcott.

I have categorized this list of the complete works of Louisa May Alcott as follows:

• Poems (56)  [titles only] [annotated list]
  
• Plays (11)  [titles only] [annotated list]
  
• Short Stories (252)  [titles only]
  
  • Juvenile Short Stories (157)  [titles only] [annotated list]
    
  • Adult Short Stories (66)  [titles only] [annotated list]
    
  • Other Short Stories (29)  [titles only] [annotated list]
    
• Novels (18)  [titles only] [annotated list]
  
• Collective Works (24)  [titles only] [annotated list]
  
• Other Works (25)  [titles only] [annotated list]
  

Within each category, the works are numbered and listed in alphabetical order, by title. This page contains "titles only" for the works, but I have created (and provided links to) separate pages containing an "annotated list" for each category of works. On those separate, annotated pages, I have provided (as applicable) some additional facts pertaining to the individual works, such as:

• status and date of publication
• additional title information (i.e. subtitle, alternate title)
• series information
• name of original publisher
• status of authorship (i.e. anonymous/pseudonymous)
• date written (if unpublished, if published posthumously, or if otherwise notable)
• major characters
• subject/plot keywords
• plot summary

Although I believe this list of titles to be *comprehensive*, the project is not yet *complete*. First, there are a few works which I am not yet sure how to categorize. So as not to ignore my knowledge of the existence of these titles, I have placed each in the section where I most believe it to belong, with a note indicating other possible categories for it. If you know the proper category for any of these works, please contact me. Second, my research is ongoing for more information to add to the annotated pages; hence, they may be updated periodically. Thank you for your patience and your assistance with this work in progress.  --Susan L. Tolbert, M.S.L.I.S.

  * See my annotated list for more information about these poems.

1. A.B.A.
2. An Advertisement
3. An Autumn Song
4. Clover-Blossom
5. Despondency
6. F.A.P.
7. Fairy Firefly (or, Fairy Fire-Fly)
8. Fairy Song
9. Faith
10. The Flower's Lesson
11. Goldfin and Silvertail
12. The Hawthorne
13. In the Garret
14. The Lay of a Golden Goose
15. A Little Grey Curl
16. Little Nell
17. Little Paul
18. Lullaby
19. Merry Christmas
20. The Mother-Moon
21. My Doves
22. My Kingdom (or, My Little Kingdom)
23. My Prayer
24. The Nautilus
25. Our Angel in the House (or, My Beth)
26. Our Little Ghost
27. Our Madonna
28. Peep! Peep! Peep!
29. The Rock and the Bubble
30. The Sanitary Fair
31. A Song for a Christmas Tree (or, A Christmas Song)
32. A Song for Little Freddie on his Third Birthday
33. A Song from the Suds (poem?)
34. Songs from a Sea-Shell
35. Sunlight
36. Thoreau's Flute
37. To Anna
38. To Father
39. To Mother
40. To My Father, on His 86th Birthday
41. To Papa
42. To the First Robin
43. Transfigurations
44. Untitled  ("Far away there in the sunshine")
45. Untitled  ("God comfort thee dear mother")
46. Untitled  ("The great deep heart that was a home for all")
47. Untitled  ("Philosophers Sit in Their Sylvan Hall")
48. Untitled  ("Softly doth the sun descend")
49. Untitled  ("There is a town of high repute")
50. Untitled  ("Two pair of blue hose")
51. A Wail Uttered in the Womanıs Club
52. What Polly Found in Her Stocking
53. Where Is Bennie?
54. Winter
55. Wishes
56. With a Rose That Bloomed on the Day of John Brown's Martyrdom

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  * See my annotated list for more information about these plays.

1. Bandit's Bride
2. Bianca
3. The Captive of Castile (or, The Moorish Maiden's Vow)
4. The Greek Slave
5. Ion
6. The Long Lost Cousin
7. Nat Bachelor's Pleasure Trip (or, The Trials of a Good-natured Man)
8. Norna (or, The Witch's Curse)
9. The Prince and the Peasant
10. The Rival Prima Donnas
11. The Unloved Wife (or, Woman's Faith)

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• Juvenile Short Stories (including fairy tales and other fantasy stories)
• Adult Short Stories (including gothic thriller tales and romance stories)
• Other Short Stories (not specifically juvenile or adult, or unsure how to classify)

Juvenile Short Stories (including fairy tales and other fantasy stories)

  * See my annotated list for more information about these juvenile short stories.

1. The Accident
2. The Ants
3. The Autobiography of an Omnibus
4. Baa! Baa!
5. Back Windows
6. The Banner of Beaumanoir
7. Becky's Christmas Dream
8. The Bees
9. Bertie's Box
10. The Blind Lark
11. Bonfires
12. The Boys' Joke, and Who Got the Best of It
13. The Brownie and the Princess
14. Butterflies
15. The Candy Country
16. The Children's Joke
17. A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True
18. A Christmas Turkey, and How It Came
19. Clams
20. Clara's Idea  (or, A Bright Idea)
21. Cockyloo
22. The Cooking-Class
23. Coral-lip
24. Corny's Catamount
25. Crickets and Grasshoppers
26. The Cross on the Old Church Tower
27. Cupid and Chow-Chow
28. A Curious Call
29. Daisy's Jewel Box, and How She Filled It
30. Dan's Dinner
31. Dogs
32. The Dolls' Journey from Minnesota to Maine
33. Dolly's Bedstead
34. The Eaglet in the Dove's Nest
35. Eli's Education
36. Eva's Visit to Fairy-Land
37. An Evening Call
38. The Fairy Box
39. The Fairy Dell
40. Fairy Pinafores
41. The Fairy Spring  (including poem titled "May")
42. Fancy's Friend
43. A Flower Fable  (or, Queen Aster)
44. The Flower's Story
45. The Frost-King  (or, The Power of Love)
46. Good-by to Winter.  (short story? or editorial?)
47. Grandmamma's Pearls
48. Grandma's Story  (or, Grandma and Her Mother)
49. Grandma's Team
50. Grandmother's Specs
51. A Happy Birthday
52. The Hare and the Tortoise
53. Helping Along
54. How It All Happened
55. How They Camped Out
56. How They Ran Away
57. How We Saw the Shah
58. Huckleberry
59. An Ivy Spray  (or, An Ivy Spray and Ladies' Slippers)
60. Jerseys  (or, The Girls' Ghost)
61. Jimmy's Cruise in the "Pinafore"
62. A Jolly Fourth
63. Kate's Choice
64. King Goldenrod
65. Kitty's Cattle Show
66. Lily-Bell and Thistledown  (or, The Fairy Sleeping Beauty)
67. Little Annie's Dream  (or, The Fairy Flower)
68. The Little Boats  (or, Dandelion)
69. Little Boston
70. Little Bud
71. Little Button-Rose
72. A Little Cinderella
73. A Little Gentleman  (or, My Little Gentleman)
74. Little Gulliver
75. The Little House in the Garden
76. Little Marie of Lehon
77. Little Neighbors
78. Little Pyramus and Thisbe  (or, A Hole in the Wall)
79. The Little Red Purse
80. Little Robin
81. Little Things  (or, A Genuine Little Lady)
82. Little Things
83. Living in an Omnibus
84. London Bridges
85. Lost in a London Fog
86. Lu Sing
87. Lunch
88. Madam Cluck, and Her Family
89. Mamma's Plot
90. A Marine Merry-Making
91. Marjorie's Birthday Gifts  (or, Marjorie's Three Gifts)
92. May Flowers
93. Mermaids
94. Milly's Messenger
95. Morning-Glories
96. The Moss People
97. Mother's Trial
98. Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair
99. Music and Macaroni
100. My Fourth of July
101. My Girls
102. My Little Friend  (or, Buzz)
103. My Little School-Girl
104. The Mystery of Morlaix
105. Naughty Jocko
106. Nelly's Hospital
107. A New Way to Spend Christmas
108. Number Eleven
109. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
110. Old Major
111. Onawandah
112. On the Keel
113. Our Little Newsboy
114. Pansies
115. Patty's Patchwork
116. Patty's Place
117. The Piggy Girl
118. Poppies and Wheat
119. Poppy's Pranks
120. Red Tulips
121. Ripple, the Water-Spirit  (or, Ripple, the Water Sprite)
122. Rosa's Tale
123. The Rose Family
124. Roses and Forget-Me-Nots
125. Rosy's Journey
126. Seven Black Cats
127. Shadow-Children
128. The Silver Party
129. Silver Pitchers
130. Silver Wing
131. The Skipping Shoes
132. Snails and Seals
133. Sophie's Secret
134. The Spiders
135. Squirrels and Moles
136. A Strange Island
137. Sunshine, and Her Brothers and Sisters
138. Sunshiny Sam
139. Tabby's Table-cloth
140. Tessa's Surprises
141. The Three Frogs
142. Tilly's Christmas  (or, The Fairy Bird)
143. Tribulation's Travels
144. Trudel's Siege
145. Two Little Travellers
146. Uncle Smiley's Boys
147. A Visit to the School-Ship
148. A Visit to the Tombs
149. Water-Lilies
150. The Whale's Story
151. What a Shovel Did
152. What Becomes of the Pins
153. What Fanny Heard
154. What it Cost
155. What the Bells Saw and Said
156. What the Girls Did
157. What the Swallows Did

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Adult Short Stories (including gothic thriller tales and romance stories)

  * See my annotated list for more information about these adult short stories.

1. The Abbot's Ghost  (or, Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story)
2. Anna's Whim
3. Ariel
4. The Baron's Gloves  (or, Amyıs Romance)
5. Behind a Mask  (or, A Woman's Power)
6. La Belle Bayadere
7. Betrayed by a Buckle
8. The Blue and the Gray
9. By the River
10. Countess Varazoff
11. Debby's Debut
12. Doctor Dorn's Revenge
13. A Double Tragedy
14. Enigmas
15. Fatal Follies
16. Fate in a Fan
17. The Fate of the Forrests
18. The Freak of a Genius
19. A Free Bed
20. The Golden Wedding and What Came of It
21. Honor's Fortune
22. Hope's Debut
23. A Hospital Christmas
24. An Hour
25. How I Went Out to Service
26. Independence
27. The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts
28. La Jeune  (or, Actress and Woman)
29. The Lady and the Woman
30. A Laugh and a Look
31. Letty's Tramp
32. Love and Loyalty
33. Love and Self-Love
34. A Marble Woman  (or, The Mysterious Model)
35. Marion Earle  (or, Only an Actress!)
36. The Masked Marriage
37. M.L.
38. A Modern Cinderella  (or, The Little Old Shoe)
39. Mrs. Podgers' Teapot
40. Mrs. Vane's Charade
41. My Contraband  (or, The Brothers)
42. My Mysterious Mademoiselle
43. My Red Cap
44. My Rococo Watch
45. The Mysterious Key, and What it Opened
46. A New Year's Blessing
47. A Nurse's Story  (or, The Carruths)
48. On Picket Duty
49. A Pair of Eyes  (or, Modern Magic)
50. Pauline's Passion and Punishment
51. Perilous Play
52. The Rival Painters
53. The Rival Prima Donnas
54. The Romance of a Bouquet
55. The Romance of a Summer Day
56. Scarlet Stockings
57. The Sisters' Trial
58. The Steel Bracelet  (or, The Skeleton in the Closet!)
59. Taming a Tartar
60. Thrice Tempted
61. Transcendental Wild Oats
62. Up the Rhine
63. V.V.  (or, Plots and Counterplots)
64. Victoria
65. Which Wins?
66. A Whisper in the Dark

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Other Short Stories (not specifically juvenile or adult, or unsure how to classify)

  * See my annotated list for more information about these "other short stories".

1. Anna
2. Aunt Kipp
3. A Baby's Birthday
4. Bertha
5. A Country Christmas
6. A Dickens Day  (travel sketch?)
7. France  (travel sketch)
8. Hope's Treasures
9. A (The?) Hospital Lamp
10. Italy  (travel sketch)
11. Kitty's Class Day
12. Little Genevieve
13. The Little Seed
14. London  (travel sketch)
15. Lost in a Pyramid  (or, The Mummy's Curse)
16. Mabel's May Day
17. Mark Field's Mistake
18. Mark Field's Success
19. Mrs. Gay's Hint, and How It Was Taken
20. Off  (travel sketch)
21. Pelagie's Wedding  (or, A French Wedding)
22. A Phantom Face
23. The Prince and the Fairy
24. Psyche's Art
25. A Royal Governess
26. Ruth's Secret
27. Switzerland  (travel sketch)
28. A Tribute to Rex.  (short story? or article?)
29. Women in Brittany  (travel sketch)

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  * See my annotated list for more information about these novels.

1. Diana and Persis  (or, An Untitled Romance)
2. Eight Cousins  (or, The Aunt-Hill)
3. Genesis  (or, Genius)?
4. Hospital Sketches (novel? or collection? or memoir?)
5. The Inheritance
6. Jack and Jill
7. Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out
8. Little Men
9. Little Women, Part First
10. Little Women, Part Second  (or, Good Wives)
11. A Long Fatal Love Chase
12. A Modern Mephistopheles
13. Moods
14. An Old-Fashioned Girl
15. Rose in Bloom
16. A Tragedy of To-day
17. Under the Lilacs
18. Work  (or, Success)

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  * See my annotated list for more information about these collections.

1. Beach Bubbles  (poems)
2. Camp and Fireside Stories  (short stories)
3. A Christmas Dream  (short stories)
4. The Christmas Elves  (short stories)
5. Christmas Plum Pudding Stories  (short stories)
6. Comic Tragedies  (plays)
7. Cupid and Chow-Chow, etc.  (short stories)
8. Flower Fables  (poems and short stories)
9. The Frost King  (short stories)
10. A Garland for Girls  (short stories)
11. Jimmy's Cruise in the "Pinafore," etc.  (short stories)
12. Letters from the Mountains  (humor stories?)
13. Morning-Glories, and Other Stories  (poems and short stories)
14. My Boys, etc.  (short stories and memoirs)
15. My Girls, etc.  (short stories)
16. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, etc.  (short stories)
17. On Picket Duty, and Other Tales  (short stories)
18. Proverb Stories  (short stories)
19. Recollections  (short stories and a memoir)
20. Shawl-Straps  (travel sketches)
21. Silver Pitchers, and Independence  (short stories)
22. Spinning-Wheel Stories  (short stories)
23. Three Proverb Stories  (short stories)
24. Will's Wonder-Book  (animal anecdotes)

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  * See my annotated list for more information about these "other works".

1. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag  (series)
2. The Children's Song  (song)
3. Colored Soldiers' Letters
4. Early Marriages  (article)
5. Happy Women  (advice-column contribution)
6. The John Brown Song  (song)
7. Letter to Mr. Prang  (advertisement)
8. Life in a Pension  (article? or short story?)
9. Lulu's Library  (series)
10. March, March, Mothers and Grand-mamas! (or, Young America)  (song)
11. Merry's Monthly Chat With His Friends  (editorial column)
12. Miss Alcott on Mind-Cure  (article)
13. My Boys  (memoir)
14. My May-Day Among Curious Birds and Beasts  (article or memoir)
15. My Polish Boy  (memoir)
16. Oh, the Beautiful Old Story  (hymn)
17. The Olive Leaf  (family newspaper)
18. Preface  (preface to her sister's book)
19. Preface  (preface to Theodore Parkerıs book of prayers)
20. Recent Exciting Scenes in Rome  (article? or travel sketch?)
21. Recollections of My Childhood  (memoir)
22. Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson  (tribute)
23. A Sprig of Andromeda  (letter)
24. Untitled.  (words of wisdom)
25. What Shall Little Children Bring  (hymn)

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NOTES:

-- A bibliography identifying the sources I consulted in compiling this list of works

is provided on a separate page.

-- For additional recommendations of books to use when researching Alcott's life and works,

see my "selective annotated bibliography", compiled in 1995.

-- For a brief background of Louisa May Alcott's writing career,

see that section on my page entitled "Louisa May Alcott: Biographical Information".

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