Louisa May Alcott

Bibliography

Little Women

• Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
  (2 volumes: 1868-1969)
  • Volume 2 republished as:
    Little Women Wedded (1872)
    Little Women Married (1873)
    Nice Wives (1875)
    Good Wives (1895)
  • Both volumes republished as:
    Little Women and Good Wives (1895)
• Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
• Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out (1886)

Other Novels

• The Inheritance (1849)
  – Discovered in 1988.
• Moods (1864)
• A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)
• An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870)
• Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
• Eight Cousins; or, The Aunt-Hill (1875)
• Rose in Bloom (1876)
• A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
  – First published anonymously.
• Under the Lilacs (1878)
• Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)

Short Fiction

• Flower Fables (1855)
• Hospital Sketches (1863)
• The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864)
• On Picket Duty, and Other Tales (1864)
• Nelly's Hospital (1865)
• The Mysterious Key, and What It Opened (1867)
• Morning-Glories, and Other Stories (1868)
• Proverb Stories (1868)
  • Kitty's Class Day
  • Aunt Kipp
  • Psyche's Art
• Hospital Sketches; Camp and Fireside Stories (1869)
• Will's Wonder Book (1870)
• V.V; or, Plots and Counterplots (c. 1870)
  – Published under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard.
• Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (6 volumes, 1872 – 1882)
• Something to Do (1873)
  – Contains Proverb Stories.
• Silver Pitchers; Independence, a Centennial Love Story (1876)
• Meadow Blossoms (1879)
• Water Cresses (1879)
• Sparkles for Bright Eyes (1879)
• Spinning-Wheel Stories (1884)
• Lulu's Library:
  • A Christmas Dream (1886)
  • The Frost King (1887)
  • Recollections (1889)
• A Garland for Girls (1887)
• A Modern Mephistopheles; A Whisper in the Dark (1889)

Posthumous Publications

• Comic Tragedies Written by "Jo" and "Meg" and Acted by the Little Women (1893)
• A Round Dozen: Stories (1963)
• Glimpses of Louisa: A Centennial Sampling of the Best Short Stories by Louisa May Alcott (1968)
• Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott (1975)
• Louisa's Wonder Book: An Unknown Alcott Juvenile (1975)
• Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott (1976)
• Trundel's Siege (1976)
• Diana and Persis (1978)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (1984)
• The Hidden Louisa May Alcott: A Collection of Her Unknown Thrillers (1986)
• A Modern Mephistopheles; Taming a Tartar (1987)
• The Works of Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888 (1987)
• A Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott (1988)
• Alternative Alcott (1988)
• An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (1989, 1991)
• Shawl Straps (1989)
• Silver Pitchers and Other Stories (1989)
• Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories (1992)
• From Jo March's Attic: Stories of Intrigue and Suspense (1993)
• The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott (1995)
• A Marble Woman: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott (1995)
• Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers (1995)
• Modern Magic: Five Stories (1995)
• Short Stories (1996)
• The Quiet Little Woman; Tilly's Christmas; Rosa's Tale: Three Enchanting Christmas Stories (1999)
• The Portable Louisa May Alcott (2000)
• The Poems of Louisa May Alcott (2000)
• The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860 (2000)
• The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott (2001)
• The Uncollected Works of Louisa May Alcott – Volume One: Short Stories (2001)
• Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction (2001)
• Kate's Choice; What Love Can Do; Gwen's Adventure in the Snow: Three Fire-Side Stories to Warm the Heart (2001)
• Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury (2002)
• A Modern Cinderella or the Little Old Shoe (2002)

Correspondence, Memoirs, Journals

• Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (1889)
• Transcendental Wild Oats (1981)
• Transcendental Wild Oats and Excerpts from the Fruitlands Diary (1981)
• The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott (1987)
• The Journals of Louisa May Alcott (1992)
• Louisa May Alcott: Her Girlhood Diary (1995)
• The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843 – 1846 (2000)