Sources I Consulted

in Compiling the List of Works of
  Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

--Susan L. Tolbert, M.S.L.I.S. 

Sources Consulted:

• Alcott, L. M.  Morning-Glories, and Other Stories .  1867. Boston: Horace B. Fuller, 1868.
  
  
• Alcott, L. M.  Morning-Glories, and Other Stories .  1867. New York: G. W. Carleton, 1871.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  "The Eaglet in the Dove's Nest." St. Nicholas  30 (January 1903): 202-207.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  "Early Marriages." The Ladie's Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper  4.10 (September 1887): 3.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories .  1869. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc. .  Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. Vol. 5. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc. .  1879.  Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. Vol. 5. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  "Little Things." St. Nicholas  11.7 (May 1884): 547-54.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  "Little Things." The Youth's Companion  43.3 (20 January 1870): 20.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  Lulu's Library .  Vol. 2. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  "May." Woman's Home Companion  32.5 (May 1905): 47.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  A Modern Mephistopheles and A Whisper in the Dark .  Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  "Mrs. Podgers' Teapot." Saturday Evening Gazette  50.52 (December 24, 1864): 1.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  Proverb Stories .  1882. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1885.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  Shawl-Straps .  Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. Vol. 2. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  Silver Pitchers and Independence .  1876. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa M.  Spinning-Wheel Stories .  1884.  Illus. Pelagie Doane. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  Flower Fables .  Boston: George W. Briggs & Co., 1855.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  Flower Fables .  1854. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1898.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  Flower Fables .  New York: Hurst & Co., 1854.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  A Free Bed .  Ed. Madeleine Stern. Provo, Utah: Friends of the Brigham Young University, 1978.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  A Garland for Girls .  1887. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  A Garland for Girls .  1887. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  The Lay of a Golden Goose .  1886.  Calligr. Kristina Joyce. Concord, Massachusetts: Orchard House, 1987.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  Little Women .  1868-69.  Illus. Louis Jambor.  Illustrated Junior Library. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1990.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  A Long Fatal Love Chase .  Ed. Kent Bicknell. New York: Random House, 1995.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  Modern Magic .  Ed. Madeleine B. Stern.  The Modern Library Series. New York: Random House, 1995.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  My Boys .  1871.  Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown, n.d..
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving .  1881.  Illus. Michael McCurdy. New York: Holiday House, 1989.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  On Picket Duty, and Other Tales .  1864.  The American Short Story Series. Vol. 33. New York: Garrett, 1969.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  To Papa .  Fruitlands Farmhouse Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts.
  
  
• Alcott, Louisa May.  Transcendental Wild Oats and Excerpts from the Fruitlands Diary .  1975.  Ed. William Henry Harrison.  Illus. J. Streeter Fowke. Harvard: Harvard Common Press, 1981.
  
  
• Anderson, William.  The World of Louisa May Alcott .  New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
  
  
• Bentley, Nicolas, Michael Slater, and Nina Burgess.  The Dickens Index .  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
  
  
• Bonstelle, Jessie, and Marian DeForest, eds.  Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott .  Boston: Little, Brown, 1914.
  
  
• Booss, Claire, ed.  The Best of Louisa May Alcott .  Illus. Frank T. Merrill, Reginald B. Birch, Addie Ledyard, et al. New York: Gramercy, 1994.
  
  
• Burke, Kathleen.  Louisa May Alcott .  American Women of Achievement. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.
  
  
• Cheney, Ednah D.  Louisa May Alcott .  1889.  American Men and Women of Letters. New York: Chelsea House, 1980.
  
  
• Clark, Annie M. L.  The Alcotts in Harvard .  Lancaster, Massachusetts: J. C. L. Clark, 1902.
  
  
• Coe, Fanny E., ed.  The Louisa Alcott Story Book .  Boston: Little, Brown, 1910.
  
  
• Colver, Anne.  Louisa May Alcott: Author of "Little Women" .  Illus. Cary. Champaign, Illinois: Garrard, 1969.
  
  
• Delamar, Gloria T.  Louisa May Alcott and "Little Women ": Biography, Critique, Publications, Poems, Songs and Contemporary Relevance .  Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 1990.
  
  
• Dodge, Mary Mapes, ed.  St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks  Vol. 11, Part 1 New York: The Century Co., November 1883 to April 1884.
  
  
• Dodge, Mary Mapes, ed.  St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks  Vol. 11, Part 2 New York: The Century Co., May to October 1884.
  
  
• Dodge, Mary Mapes, ed.  St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks  Vol. 12, Part 1 New York: The Century Co., November 1884 to April 1885.
  
  
• Dodge, Mary Mapes, ed.  St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks  Vol. 13, Part 1 New York: The Century Co., November 1885 to April 1886.
  
  
• Dodge, Mary Mapes, ed.  St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks  Vol. 14, Part 1 New York: The Century Co., November 1886 to April 1887.
  
  
• Eaton, Anne Thaxter, ed.  A Round Dozen: Stories by Louisa May Alcott .  Illus. Tasha Tudor. New York: Viking, 1963.
  
  
• Elbert, Sarah, ed.  Louisa May Alcott on Race, Sex, and Slavery .  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
  
  
• Elbert, Sarah. Papers. Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
  
  
• Fairfield, Flora.  "Sunlight." Peterson's Magazine .  20.3 (September 1851): 110.
  
  
• Gill, William Fearing, comp.  The Horn of Plenty of Home Poems and Home Pictures .   Boston: William F. Gill, 1876.
  
  
• Gordon, Anna A., ed.  The White Ribbon Birthday Book: A Selection for Each Day from the Best Writers Among Women .  Illus. Mary A. Lathbury. Chicago: Womanıs Temperance Pub. Association, 1887.
  
  
• Gowing, Clara.  The Alcotts As I Knew Them .  Boston: The C. M. Clark Publishing Co., 1909.
  
  
• Greene, Carol.  Louisa May Alcott: Author, Nurse, Suffragette .  Chicago: Childrens Press, 1984.
  
  
• Gulliver, Lucille, comp.  Louisa May Alcott: A Bibliography .  Ed. Cornelia Meigs. Boston: Little, Brown, 1932.
  
  
• Harlow, Lurabel.  Louisa May Alcott: A Souvenir .  Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1888.
  
  
• Johnston, Norma.  Louisa May: The World and Works of Louisa May Alcott .  New York: Four Winds, 1991.
  
  
• Lathrop, G. P.  A Masque of Poets. Including "Guy Vernon," A Novelette in Verse .  Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878.
  
  
• Lillie, Lucy C.  "Louisa May Alcott." The Cosmopolitan .  5.2 (April 1888): 156-64.
  
  
• Linn, Edith Willis, and Henri Bazin, eds.  Alcott Memoirs: Posthumously Compiled from Papers, Journals and Memoranda of the Late Dr. Frederick L. H. Willis .  Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1915.
  
  
• Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology .  New York: Doubleday, 1997.
  
  
• MacDonald, Ruth K.  Louisa May Alcott .  Boston: Twayne, 1983.
  
  
• Marsella, Joy A.  The Promise of Destiny: Children and Women in the Short Stories of Louisa May Alcott .  Contributions to the Study of Childhood and Youth. No. 2. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983.
  
  
• McSherry, Frank, Jr., Charles G. Waugh, and Martin Greenberg, eds.  Civil War Women: The Civil War Seen Through Women's Eyes in Stories by Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Eudora Welty, and Other Great Women Writers . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
  
  
• Meigs, Cornelia, ed.  Glimpses of Louisa: A Centennial Sampling of the Best Short Stories by Louisa May Alcott .  Boston: Little, Brown, 1968.
  
  
• Myerson, Joel, and Daniel Shealy.  Afterword (pp. 179-188) to The Inheritance , by Louisa May Alcott.  New York: Dutton, 1997.
  
  
• Myerson, Joel, Daniel Shealy, and Madeleine B. Stern, eds.  The Journals of Louisa May Alcott .  Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.
  
  
• Porter, Maria S.  Recollections on Louisa May Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Robert Browning, together with several memorial poems .  The New England Magazine Corporation, 1893.
  
  
• Powers, Maria.  The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott .  Concord, Massachusetts: Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association, 1997.
  
  
• Pratt, Anna Alcott, ed.  Comic Tragedies Written by "Jo" and "Meg" and Acted by the "Little Women" .   1893. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.
  
  
• Ryan, Cary, ed. and comp.  Louisa May Alcott: Her Girlhood Diary .  Illus. Mark Graham. Mahwah, New Jersey: BridgeWater, 1993.
  
  
• Saxton, Martha.  Louisa May: A Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott .  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
  
  
• Shaw, J. M., comp.  The Poems, Poets, & Illustrators of St. Nicholas Magazine, 1873-1943: An Index .  Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1965.
  
  
• Shealy, Daniel, ed.  Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories .  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
  
  
• Shealy, Daniel, Madeleine B. Stern, and Joel Myerson, eds.  Freaks of Genius: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott . Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture. No. 28. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
  
  
• Shealy, Daniel, Madeleine B. Stern, and Joel Myerson, eds.  Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction .  Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
  
  
• Showalter, Elaine, ed.  Alternative Alcott: Louisa May Alcott .  New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
  
  
• Spofford, Harriet Prescott.  "Louisa May Alcott." The Chautauquan  9.3 (December 1888): 160-62.
  
  
• Stern, Madeleine B., ed.  Louisaıs Wonder Book: An Unknown Alcott Juvenile .  Mount Pleasant, Michigan: Central Michigan University, 1975.
  
  
• Stern, Madeleine B., ed.  "The Witch's Cauldron to the Family Hearth: Louisa M. Alcott's Literary Development, 1848-1868." More Books: The Bulletin of The Boston Public Library  18.8 (October 1943): 363-80.
  
  
• Stern, Madeleine, ed.  Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott .  New York: William Morrow, 1975.
  
  
• Stern, Madeleine, ed.  Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers .  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995.
  
  
• Stern, Madeleine, ed.  Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott .  New York: William Morrow, 1976.
  
  
• Stern, Madeleine B., and Daniel Shealy, eds.  From Jo March's Attic: Stories of Intrigue and Suspense .  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.
  
  
• Stern, Madeleine B., and Daniel Shealy, eds.  The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott: Stories of Intrigue and Suspense .  Perf. Franette Liebow. Chicago: B & B Audio, 1995. Sound cassettes.
  
  
• Stern, Madeleine, Joel Myerson, and Daniel Shealy, eds.  A Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott .  Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.
  
  
• Swift, Jonathan.  A Tale of a Tub: To Which is Added "The Battle of the Books" and the "Mechanical Operation of the Spirit" .   1920. Oxford: Clarendon, 1965.
  
  
• "The Stories of Louisa May Alcott."  Atlantic Unbound: Arts & Culture .  URL:<http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/aandc/alcott/alcott.htm>.
  
  
• The Sword and The Pen  Vol. 1, Nos. 1-10 Boston: Horace P. Chandler., December 7-17, 1881.
  
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• Thompson, Lovell, ed.  Youth's Companion .  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
  
  
• Ticknor, Caroline, comp.  Classic Concord: As Portrayed by Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and the Alcotts .  Illus. May Alcott. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926.
  
  
• Ullom, Judith C., comp.  Louisa May Alcott: A Centennial for Little Women; an annotated, selected bibliography .  Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1969.
  
  
• The United States Service Magazine  Vol. 2  New York: Charles B. Richardson, July to December 1864.
  
  
• Wendte, Charles William, comp.  Heart and Voice: A Collection of Songs and Services for the Sunday School and the Home .   Copr. 1908. Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1910.
  
  
• Wendte, Charles William, and H.S. Perkins.  The Sunny Side: A Book of Religious Songs for the Sunday School and the Home .   New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1875.
  
  
• Whiting, Lilian.  Women Who Have Ennobled Life .   Philadelphia: The Union Press, 1915.
  
  
• "WorldCat."  A database in OCLC's FirstSearch  catalog service.  (Searched on 20 August 1996 and 27 April 1997 through 4 May 1997.)
  
  

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See also:

My "Selective Annotated Bibliography",  for additional recommendations of books to use when researching Alcott's life and works.

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