The Portable Louisa May Alcott

The Portable Louisa May Alcott samples the entire spectrum of Alcott's writings: her novels, novellas, children's stories, sensationalist fiction, gothic tales, memoirs, letters, and journals. Presenting her more daring works, such as Moods and Behind a Mask, alongside the more familiar heroines, and including a selection of personal writing, this singular collection shows the relationship not only between Little Women and Alcott's family life but also between Little Women and the sensation fiction - and how this apparent dichotomy illuminates who Alcott was. Edited by award-winning Alcott scholar Elizabeth Lennox Keyser, The Portable Louisa May Alcott offers readers a wide-ranging portrait of this influential writer.

Introduction

vii

Chronology

xxiii

I. SHORT FICTION

My Contraband

7

(18)

A Whisper in the Dark

25

(36)

Thrice Tempted

61

(19)

La Jeune; or, Actress and Woman

80

(17)

Psyche's Art

97

(19)

My Mysterious Mademoiselle

116

(11)

Cupid and Chow-chow

127

(17)

Queen Aster

144

(9)

II. NOVELS AND NOVELLAS

Moods

153

(206)

Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power

359

(95)

From Little Women, part 2

454

(22)

Literary Lessons

456

(6)

Friend

462

(14)

From Work: A Story of Experience

476

(9)

At Forty

477

(8)

From A Modern Mephistopheles

485

(26)

Chapters XII, XIII, and XV

487

(24)

From Jo's Boys

511

(27)

Plays at Plumfield

513

(11)

Among the Maids

524

(14)

III. MEMOIRS, JOURNALS, AND LETTERS

Transcendental Wild Oats

538

(69)

Journals

Fruitlands (1843)

553

(3)

Concord (1845--47)

556

(1)

Boston (1850--57)

557

(7)

Concord (1858--62)

564

(6)

Georgetown (1862--63)

570

(5)

Moods (1864--65)

575

(4)

Little Women (1868--69)

579

(3)

Emerson's Death (1882)

582

(2)

Letters

To Abigail May Alcott, December 25, 1854

584

(1)

To Amos Bronson Alcott, November 29, 1856

584

(2)

To Anna Alcott Pratt, date uncertain

586

(2)

To Annie Maria Lawrence, February 3, 1865

588

(1)

To Moncure Daniel Conway, February 18, 1865

588

(1)

To Mr. Ayer, March 19, 1865

589

(2)

To the Lukens Sisters, September 4 [1873]

591

(1)

To Lucy Stone, October 1, 1873

592

(1)

To Maria S. Porter [1876]

593

(1)

To Lucy Stone, June 29 [1876]

593

(1)

To John Preston True, October 24 [1878]

594

(1)

To Thomas Niles, February 12, 1881

595

(1)

To Thomas Niles, February 19, 1881

596

(1)

To William Warland Clapp, Jr., March 6, 1883

596

(1)

To Maggie Lukens, January 14 [1884]

597

(1)

To Maggie Lukens, February 5 [1884]

598

(2)

To Maggie Lukens, February 14 [1884]

600

(2)

To the Woman's Journal, May 8, 1884

602

(1)

To Lucy Stone, August 31 [1885]

603

(1)

To Thomas Niles, [June?] 1886

604

(1)

Notes to the Letters

605

(2)

Selected Bibliography

607

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