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Selected Bibliography on Louisa May Alcott

"Reading for Profit and for Pleasure: Little Women and the Story of a Bad Boy." The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 18.2 (1994): 143-53. Print.

Abate, Michelle Ann. Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. Philadelphia, PA: Temple UP, 2008. Print.

Abate, Michelle Ann. "Topsy and Topsy-Turvy Jo: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and/in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women." Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 34 (2006): 59-82. Print.

Ackerman, Alan Louis. "Theatre and the Private Sphere in the Fiction of Louisa May Alcott." Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior. Eds. Bryden, Inga and Janet Floyd. Manchester, England: Manchester UP, 1999. x, 209 pp. Print.

Ackmann, Martha. "Legacy Guide to American Women Writers' Homes (Ii)." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 2.1 (1985): 10-12. Print.

Adams, Elizabeth L. "Louisa Alcott's Doomed Manuscript." More Books, Being the Bulletin of the Boston Public Library 17 (1942): 221-22. Print.

Alberghene, Janet M. "Alcott's Psyche and Kate: Self-Portraits, Sunny Side Up." Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Children's Literature Association, University of Minnesota, March, 1981. Ed. Ord, Priscilla A. (New Rochelle): (Dept. of Eng. Iona Coll.), 1982. ii, 140 pp. Print.

Alberghene, Janice Marie. From Alcott to Abel's Island: The Image of the Artist in American Children's Literature. 1981. Print.

Alexander, Lynn M. "Unsexed by Labor: Middle-Class Women and the Need to Work." American Transcendental Quarterly 22.4 (2008): 593-608. Print.

Alton, Anne Hiebert. Little Women. Broadview Literary Texts (Broadview Literary Texts). Toronto, ON: Broadview, 2001. Print.

Anthony, Katherine. Louisa May Alcott. New York, NY, 1938. Print.

Arms, George. "The Poet as Theme Reader: William Vaughn Moody, a Student, and Louisa May Alcott." Toward a New American Literary History: Essays in Honor of Arlin Turner. Eds. Budd, Louis J., Edwin H. Cady and Carl L. Anderson. Durham: Duke UP, 1980. 279 pp. Print.

Armstrong, Frances. "'Here Little, and Hereafter Bliss': Little Women and the Deferral of Greatness." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 64.3 (1992): 453-74. Print.

Auerbach, Nina. "Austen and Alcott on Matriarchy: New Women or New Wives?" Novel: A Forum on Fiction 10.1 (1976): 6-26. Print.

Baldellou, Marta Miquel. "Inheriting Traditional Roles of American Female Growth: From Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to Jeffrey Eugenides' the Virgin Suicides." New Literatures of Old: Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literature. Eds. Prado-Perez, Jose Ramon and Didac Llorens Cubedo. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. viii, 194 pp. Print.

Bannett, Nina. "Cuban Femininity and National Unity in Louisa May Alcott's Moods and Elizabeth Stoddard's 'Eros and Anteros'." Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives. Ed. Hammerman, Robin. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. xvii, 372 pp. Print.

Bannett, Nina. "'Unrighteous Compact': Louisa May Alcott's Resistance to Contracts and Promises in Moods." Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace. Eds. Yarington, Earl and Mary De Jong. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. xi, 496 pp. Print.

Barnes, Elizabeth. "The Whipping Boy of Love: Atonement and Aggression in Alcott's Fiction." Journal x: A Journal in Culture and Criticism 2.1 (1997): 1-17. Print.

Bassil, Veronica. "The Artist at Home: The Domestication of Louisa May Alcott." Studies in American Fiction 15.2 (1987): 187-97. Print.

Baum, Freda. "The Scarlet Strand: Reform Motifs in the Writings of Louisa May Alcott." Critical Essays on American Literature (Ceal). Ed. Stern, Madeleine B. Boston: Hall, 1984. x, 295 pp. Print.

Bedell, Jeanne F. "The Necessary Mask: The Sensation Fiction of Louisa May Alcott." Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 5 (1980): 8-14. Print.

Bedell, Madelon. The Alcotts: Biography of a Family. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980. Print.

Beegel, Susan F. "'Bernice Bobs Her Hair': Fitzgerald's Jazz Elegy for 'Little Women'." New Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Neglected Stories. Ed. Bryer, Jackson R. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1996. xi, 367 pp. Print.

Berman, Ruth. "No Jo Marches!" Children's Literature in Education 29.4 (1998): 237-47. Print.

Berman, Ruth. "'Spirituous Consolation': Alcott's Jokes on Drinking and Religion." Children's Literature in Education: An International Quarterly 39.3 (2008): 169-86. Print.

Bernstein, Susan Naomi. "Writing and Little Women: Alcott's Rhetoric of Subversion." American Transcendental Quarterly 7.1 (1993): 25-43. Print.

Bernstein, Susan Naomi. Writing as Process and Metaphor in Selected Works of Louisa May Alcott, Margret Fuller, Herman Melville, and Harriet Jacobs. 1993. Print.

Bevan, Ellen Sternberg. Family Matters: The Fiction of Hawthorne, Alcott, and James. 1991. Print.

Bizzell, Patricia. "Chastity Warrants for Women Public Speakers in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40.4 (2010): 385-401. Print.

Black, Linda. "Louisa May Alcott's 'Huckleberry Finn'." Mark Twain Journal 21.2 (1982): 15-17. Print.

Blackburn, William. "'Moral Pap for the Young'? A New Look at Louisa May Alcott's Little Men." Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Children's Literature Association, Baylor University, March, 1980. Ed. Ord, Priscilla A. (New Rochelle): (Dept. of Eng. Iona Coll.), 1982. iii, 174 pp. Print.

Blackford, Holly. "Little Women on the Big Screen: Heterosexual Womanhood as Social Performance." Film/Fiction (Film/Fiction). Eds. Cartmell, Deborah, et al. Sterling, VA: Pluto, 1998. 216 pp. Print.

Blackford, Holly. "Vital Signs at Play: Objects as Vessels of Mother-Daughter Discourse in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women." Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 34 (2006): 1-36. Print.

Blakemore, Erin. The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2010. Print.

Boaden, Ann. "The Joyful Woman: Comedy as Mode of Liberation in Little Women and Work." The Masks of Comedy. Ed. Boaden, Ann. Rock Island, IL: Augustana Coll. Lib, 1980. 102 pp. Print.

Bomarito, Jessica, Jeffrey W. Hunter, and Amy Hudock. Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 2004. Print.

Boyd, Anne E. From 'Scribblers' to Artists: The Emergence of Women Writers as Artists in America. 2000. Print.

Boyd, Anne E. Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. Print.

Boyle, Marjorie O. "Weavers, Farmers, Tailors, Travellers, Masons, Prostitutes, Pimps, Turks, Little Women, and Other Theologians." Erasmus in English 3 (1971): 1-7. Print.

Broderick, John C. "Thoreau, Alcott, and the Poll Tax." Studies in Philology 53 (1956): 612-26. Print.

Brola, Marek. "Louisa May Alcott's 'a Pair of Eyes; or, Modern Magic'-a Denunciation of Artificiality." Roczniki Humanistyczne: Annales de Lettres et Sciences Humaines/Annals of Arts 53.5 (2005): 41-47. Print.

Brooks, Geraldine. "Orpheus at the Plough: The Father of 'Little Women'." New Yorker 80.42 (2005): 58-65. Print.

Bruder, Anne Lindsey. Outside the Classroom Walls: Alternative Pedagogies in American Literature and Culture, 1868-1910. 2009. Print.

Butterworth-McDermott, Christine. "Behind a Mask of Beauty: Alcott's Beast in Disguise." American Transcendental Quarterly 18.1 (2004): 25-48. Print.

Cadogan, Mary. "'Sweet, If Somewhat Tomboyish': The British Response to Louisa May Alcott." Critical Essays on American Literature (Ceal). Ed. Stern, Madeleine B. Boston: Hall, 1984. x, 295 pp. Print.

Cadwallader, Robin L. 'For Love's Sake': Literature as an Appeal for Kindness or the Benevolent Work of Three Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers. 2004. Print.

Calanchi, Alessandra. "'Un Sussurro Nel Buio'." Pan (Pan). Eds. Ascari, Maurizio, et al. Florence, Italy: Lettere, 1998. 323 pp. Print.

Cameron, Kenneth Walter. "Thoreau's Schoolmate, Alfred Munroe, Remembers Concord." American Transcendental Quarterly: A Journal of New England Writers 36 (1977): 10-38. Print.

Campbell, Donna M. "Sentimental Conventions and Self-Protection: Little Women and the Wide, Wide World." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 11.2 (1994): 118-29. Print.

Cappello, Mary. "'Looking About Me with All My Eyes': Censored Viewing, Carnival, and Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 50.3 (1994): 59-88. Print.

Carpenter, Lynette. "'Did They Never See Anyone Angry Before?' The Sexual Politics of Self-Control in Alcott's 'a Whisper in the Dark'." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 3.2 (1986): 31-41. Print.

Carpenter, Nan Cooke. "Louisa May Alcott and 'Thoreau's Flute': Two Letters." Huntington Library Quarterly 24 (1960): 71-74. Print.

Chapman, Mary. "Gender and Influence in Louisa May Alcott's a Modern Mephistopheles." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 13.1 (1996): 19-37. Print.

Chapman, Mary. "The Masochistic Pleasures of the Gothic: Paternal Incest in Alcott's 'a Marble Woman'." American Gothic: New Inventions in a National Narrative. Eds. Martin, Robert K. and Eric Savoy. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 1998. xii, 265 pp. Print.

Chapman, Mary Megan. 'Living Pictures': Women and Tableaux Vivants in Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Culture. 1993. Print.

Cheever, Susan. Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2010. Print.

Cheney, Ednah D., and Ann Douglas. Louisa May Alcott. American Men and Women of Letters Series. New York: Chelsea, 1980. Print.

Clark, Beverly Lyon. "Domesticating the School Story, Regendering a Genre: Alcott's Little Men." New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 26.2 (1995): 323-42. Print.

Clark, Beverly Lyon. Louisa May Alcott: The Contemporary Reviews. American Critical Archives (Aca). Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2004. Print.

Clark, Beverly Lyon. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Little Woman." Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 17 (1989): 81-97. Print.

Cohoon, Lorinda B. "'A Highly Satisfactory Chinaman': Orientalism and American Girlhood in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins." Children's Literature: Annual of The Children's Literature Association and The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature 36 (2008): 49-71. Print.

Colombat, Jacqueline. "Les 4 R: Reading, Righting, Writing, 'Rithmetic." Cahiers Charles V (Ccv). Ed. Barret-Ducrocq, Francoise. Paris, France: Institut d'Anglais Charles V Universite Paris VII, 1990. 171 pp. Print.

Connolly, Paula T. Giving Testimony: Social Reform and the Politics of Voice in Nineteenth-Century American Texts. 1991. Print.

Cowan, Octavia. A Modern Mephistopheles. New York: Bantam, 1987. Print.

Crisler, Jesse S. "Alcott's Reading in Little Women: Shaping the Autobiographical Self." Resources for American Literary Study 20.1 (1994): 27-36. Print.

Crompton, Margaret. "Little Women: The Making of a Classic." Contemporary Review 218 (1971): 99-104. Print.

Crowley, John W. "Little Women and the Boy-Book." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 58.3 (1985): 384-99. Print.

Cummings, Tracey A. 'For Such as He There Is No Death': Louisa May Alcott's Rewritings of Thoreau. 2006. Print.

DaGue, Elizabeth. "Images of Work, Glimpses of Professionalism in Selected Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Novels." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 5.1 (1980): 50-55. Print.

Dalke, Anne. "'The House Band': The Education of Men in Little Women." College English 47.6 (1985): 571-78. Print.

Danger, Sara R. "Wounded by Culture: Reading May Alcott's Illustrations for Little Women in Context." Interfaces: Image Texte Language 26 (2006): 149-58. Print.

Daniele, Daniela. "Camp and Fireside Stories: Louisa May Alcott's War Tales." Rsa: Rivista Di Studi Anglo-Americani (Rsa: Rivista Di Studi Anglo-Americani). Eds. Pisapia, Biancamarie, Ugo Rubeo and Anna Scacchi. Rome, Italy: Bulzoni, 1998. xvii, 789 pp. Print.

Davidson, Jane P. "Great Black Goats and Evil Little Women: The Image of the Witch in Sixteenth-Century German Art." Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 6 (1985): 141-57. Print.

Davis, Matthew R. "'Brother against Brother': Reconstructing the American Family in the Civil War Era." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 55.2 [215] (2009): 135-63. Print.

Davis, Octavia. A Modern Mephistopheles. New York: Bantam, 1995. Print.

Dawson, Melanie. "A Woman's Power: Alcott's 'Behind a Mask' and the Usefulness of Dramatic Literacies in the Home." American Transcendental Quarterly 11.1 (1997): 19-40. Print.

Deese, Helen R. "Louisa May Alcott's Moods: A New Archival History." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 76.3 (2003): 439-55. Print.

Derrickson, Teresa. "Race and the Gothic Monster: The Xenophobic Impulse of Louisa May Alcott's 'Taming a Tartar'." American Transcendental Quarterly 15.1 (2001): 43-58. Print.

Dollase, Hiromi Tsuchiya. Mad Girls in the Attic: Louisa May Alcott, Yoshiya Nobuko and the Development of Shojo Culture. 2004. Print.

Douglas, Ann. "Mysteries of Louisa May Alcott." New York Review of Books 28 Sept. (1978): 60-63. Print.

Doyle, Christine. "Louisa May Alcott." Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb). Eds. Hudock, Amy E. and Katharine Rodier. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2001. xix, 439 pp. Print.

Doyle, Christine. Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte: Transatlantic Translations. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2000. Print.

Doyle, Christine. "Singing Mignon's Song: German Literature and Culture in the March Trilogy." Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 31 (2003): 50-70. Print.

Doyle, Jennifer. "Jo March's Love Poems." Nineteenth-Century Literature 60.3 (2005): 375-402. Print.

Edgell, David P. "Charles Lane at Fruitlands." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 33.3 (1960): 374-77. Print.

Eiselein, Gregory. "Contradiction in Louisa May Alcott's Little Men." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 78.1 (2005): 3-25. Print.

Eiselein, Gregory. "Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Knight, Denise D. and Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. xiv, 534 pp. Print.

Eiselein, Gregory. "Modernity and Louisa May Alcott's Jo's Boys." Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 34 (2006): 83-108. Print.

Eiselein, Gregory. "Reading a Feminist Romance: Literary Critics and Little Women." Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 28 (2000): 238-44. Print.

Eiselein, Gregory. "Sentimental Discourse and the Bisexual Erotics of Work." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 41.3 (1999): 203-35. Print.

Eiselein, Gregory, Anne K. Phillips, and Madeleine B. Stern. The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. Print.

Elbert, Monika. "Charitable (Mis)Givings and the Aesthetics of Poverty in Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Stories." Children's Literature and Culture (Chilc). Ed. Elbert, Monika. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. xxiv, 284 pp. Print.

Elbert, Monika. "Dying to Be Heard: Morality and Aesthetics in Alcott's and Hawthorne's Tableaux Morts." Death Becomes Her: Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth-Century America. Eds. Dill, Elizabeth and Sheri Weinstein. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. xix, 190 pp. Print.

Elbert, Monika. The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860. Ironweed American Classics (Ironweed American Classics). New York, NY: Ironweed, 2000. Print.

Elbert, Monika. The Uncollected Works of Louisa May Alcott, I: Short Stories. Ironweed American Classics (Ironweed American Classics). New York, NY: Ironweed, 2001. Print.

Elbert, Sarah. The American Prejudice against Color. Boston, MA: Northeastern UP, 2003. Print.

Elbert, Sarah. Louisa May Alcott on Race, Sex, and Slavery. Boston, MA: Northeastern UP, 1997. Print.

Elbert, Sarah. "Reading the Unwritten War: Renaissance Tales. Nella Larsen's Passing and Louisa May Alcott's 'M. L.', 'My Contraband', and 'an Hour'." Irish Journal of American Studies 2.1 (1993): 34-127. Print.

Elbert, Sarah. Work: A Story of Experience. New York: Schocken, 1977. Print.

Elliott, Mary. "Outperforming Femininity: Public Conduct and Private Enterprise in Louise May Alcott's Behind a Mask." American Transcendental Quarterly 8.4 (1994): 299-310. Print.

Ellis, Kate. "Life with Marmee: Three Versions." Ungar Film Library. Eds. Peary, Gerald and Roger Shatzkin. New York: Ungar, 1977. 356 pp. Print.

Englund, Sheryl Ann. 'An Excellent Likeness of the Author': Gender and Personality in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace. 1998. Print.

Englund, Sheryl A. "Reading the Author in Little Women: A Biography of a Book." American Transcendental Quarterly 12.3 (1998): 199-219. Print.

Erisman, Fred. "Thoreau, Alcott, and the Mythic West." Western American Literature 34.3 (1999): 303-15. Print.

Estes, Angela M. An Aptitude for Bird: Louisa May Alcott's Women and Emerson's Self-Reliant Man. 1985. Print.

Estes, Angela M., and Kathleen Margaret Lant. "Dismembering the Text: The Horror of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women." Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 17 (1989): 98-123. Print.

Estes, Angela M., and Kathleen M. Lant. "'Unlovely, Unreal Creatures': Resistance and Relationship in Louisa May Alcott's 'Fancy Friend'." The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 18.2 (1994): 154-70. Print.

Estes, Angela M., and Kathleen Margaret Lant. "'We Don't Mind the Bumps': Reforming the Child's Body in Louisa May Alcott's 'Cupid and Chow-Chow'." Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 22 (1994): 27-42. Print.

Fahy, Christopher A. "Dark Mirrorings: The Influence of Fuller on Alcott's 'Pair of Eyes'." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 45.2 [175] (1999): 131-59. Print.

Fahy, Christopher A. Fire in the Hearth: Daemonism and Domesticity in the Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott. 1997. Print.

Felder, Deborah G. A Bookshelf of Our Own: Works That Changed Women's Lives. New York, NY: Citadel, 2005. Print.

Fetterley, Judith. "Impersonating 'Little Women': The Radicalism of Alcott's 'Behind a Mask'." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10.1 (1983): 1-14. Print.

Fetterley, Judith. "Little Women: Alcott's Civil War." Feminist Studies 5.2 (1979): 369-83. Print.

Fite, Keren. "From Savage Passion to the Sweetness of Self-Control: Female Anger in Little Women and 'Pauline's Passions and Punishment." Women's Writing 14.3 (2007): 435-48. Print.

Fite, Keren. "The Veiled, the Masked, and the Civil War Woman: Louisa May Alcott and the Madwoman Allegory." Gilbert and Gubar's the Madwoman in the Attic after 30 Years. Eds. Federico, Annette R. and Sandra M. Gilbert. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 2009. xv, 272 pp. Print.

Fitzpatrick, Tara. "Love's Labor's Reward: The Sentimental Economy of Louisa May Alcott's Work." NWSA Journal 5.1 (1993): 28-44. Print.

Foote, Stephanie. "Bookish Women: Reading Girls' Fiction: A Response to Julia Mickenberg." American Literary History 19.2 (2007): 521-26. Print.

Foote, Stephanie. "Resentful Little Women: Gender and Class Feeling in Louisa May Alcott." College Literature 32.1 (2005): 63-85. Print.

Foster, Shirley. "Germany in Fact and Fiction in the Writings of Louisa May Alcott." Transatlantic Perspectives: A Series of Interdisciplinary North American Studies (Transatlantic Perspectives: A Series of Interdisciplinary North American Studies). Ed. Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar. Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 1995. xxv, 395 pp. Print.

Foxwell, Elizabeth. "Lady and the Dark." Mystery Scene 52 (1996): 44, 47. Print.

Foxwell, Elizabeth. "Louisa May Alcott's Literary Double Life." Mystery Scene 54 (1996): 27-29. Print.

Francis, Christine Doyle. Transatlantic Translations: Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte. 1996. Print.

Francke, Lizzie. "What Are You Girls Going to Do?" Sight and Sound 5.4 (1995): 28-29. Print.

Francke, Lizzie. "What Are You Girls Going to Do?: Lizzie Francke Talks with Gillian Armstrong." Film/Literature/Heritage: A Sight and Sound Reader. Ed. Vincendeau, Ginette. London, England: British Film Institute, 2001. xxxi, 300 pp. Print.

Franklin, Rosemary F. "Louisa May Alcott's Father(S) and the 'Marble Woman'." American Transcendental Quarterly 13.4 (1999): 253-68. Print.

Freniere, Emil A. "The Mountain Comes to Concord: Two New Letters from Alcott and Thoreau." Thoreau Society Bulletin 75 (1961): 2-3. Print.

Frever, Trinna S. "Vaguely Familiar: Cinematic Intertextuality in Kevin Sullivan's Anne of Avonlea." Canadian Children's Literature/Litterature Canadienne pour la Jeunesse 91-92 (1998): 36-52. Print.

Frost, Linda Anne. Thinking Language to Be a Body of Thought: Reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 1991. Print.

Gaard, Greta. "'Self-Denial Was All the Fashion': Repressing Anger in Little Women." Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 27.1 (1991): 3-19. Print.

Garcia Bachmann, Mercedes Laura. 'Little Women': Social Location of Female Labor in the Deuteronomistic History. 1999. Print.

Gaul, Theresa Strouth. "Trance-Formations: Mesmerism and 'a Woman's Power' in Louisa May Alcott's Behind a Mask." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 32.7 (2003): 835-51. Print.

Gay, Carol. "Little Women at the Movies." Ungar Film Lib. Ed. Street, Douglas. New York: Ungar, 1983. xxiv, 304 pp. Print.

Gay, Carol. "The Philosopher and His Daughter: Amos Bronson Alcott and Louisa." Essays in Literature 2 (1975): 181-91. Print.

Giordano, Paola. "Man's Self-Reliance, Woman's Self-Denial: Alcott and Emerson's Contradictions." Aracne: Convegni (Aracne: Convegni). Eds. Mariani, Giorgio, et al. Rome, Italy: Aracne, 2004. xxxi, 379 pp. Print.

Giordano, Paola. "My Contraband O the Brothers? Ambiguita, Pregiudizi E Trasformazioni Nel Racconto Di Louisa May Alcott." Confronto Letterario: Quaderni del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne dell'Universita di Paviae del Dipartimento di Linguistica e Letterature Comparate dell'Universita di Bergamo 16.31 (1999): 139-50. Print.

Golden, Catherine J. Images of the Woman Reader in Victorian British and American Fiction. Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 2003. Print.

Golden, Catherine J. "Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)." Writers of the American Renaissance: An a-to-Z Guide. Ed. Knight, Denise D. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003. xiii, 458 pp. Print.

Goldman, Suzy. "Louisa May Alcott: The Separation between Art and Family." Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 1.2 (1977): 91-97. Print.

Goldstein, Jane. "A Daughter's Place: The Intertextuality of Gene Stratton-Porter's Laddie and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women." Canadian Children's Literature/Litterature Canadienne pour la Jeunesse 111-112 (2003): 50-59. Print.

Goodman, Marcia Renee. Mothering and Authorship: Little Women, Dickens, and the Art of Projection. 1988. Print.

Grasso, Linda. "Louisa May Alcott's 'Magic Inkstand': Little Women, Feminism, and the Myth of Regeneration." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 19.1 (1998): 177-92. Print.

Habegger, Alfred. "Precocious Incest: First Novels by Louisa May Alcott and Henry James." Massachusetts Review: A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts and Public Affairs 26.2-3 (1985): 233-62. Print.

Hackenbert, Sara. "Plots and Counterplots: The Defense of Sensational Fiction in Louisa May Alcott's 'Behind a Mask'." American Transcendental Quarterly 22.2 (2008): 435-51. Print.

Halttunen, Karen. "The Domestic Drama of Louisa May Alcott." Feminist Studies 10.2 (1984): 233-54. Print.

Hamblen, Abigail Ann. "The Divided World of Louisa May Alcott." Webs and Wardrobes: Humanist and Religious World Views in Children's Literature. Eds. Milner, Joseph O'Beirne and Lucy Floyd Morcock Milner. Lanham, MD: UPs of America, 1987. x, 159 pp. Print.

Hamblen, Abigail A. "Louisa May Alcott and the Racial Question." University Review 37 (1971): 307-13. Print.

Hamblen, Abigail Ann. "Louisa May Alcott and the 'Revolution' in Education." JGE: The Journal of General Education 22 (1970): 81-92. Print.

Heilbrun, Carolyn G. "Louisa May Alcott: The Influence of Little Women." Women, the Arts, and the 1920s in Paris and New York. Eds. Wheeler, Kenneth W., Virginia Lee Lussier and Catharine R. Stimpson. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1982. xii, 159 pp. Print.

Heilmann, Ann. "Medusa's Blinding Art: Mesmerism and Female Artistic Agency in Louisa May Alcott's 'a Pair of Eyes; or, Modern Magic'." Warwick Studies in the Humanities (Wsh). Ed. Frank, Lucy. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007. x, 234 pp. Print.

Hellman, Caroline. Sanctum Sanctorum: The Alternative Designs and Domesticities of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton. 2008. Print.

Hendler, Glenn. "The Limits of Sympathy: Louisa May Alcott and the Sentimental Novel." American Literary History 3.4 (1991): 685-706. Print.

Hendler, Glenn Stewart. Women, Boys, and the American Novel: Figuring the Mass Audience, 1850-1900. 1992. Print.

Hicks, David. "Decoding Alcott: Keyser's Whispers in the Dark." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 23.4 (1998): 220-21. Print.

Higonnet, Margaret R. "Civil Wars and Sexual Territories." Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation. Eds. Cooper, Helen M., Adrienne Auslander Munich and Susan Merrill Squier. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989. xx, 348 pp. Print.

Hines, Maude. "Missionary Positions: Taming the Savage Girl in Louisa May Alcott's Jack and Jill." Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 23.3 (1999): 373-94. Print.

Hines, Maude Elizabeth. Making Americans: National Fairy Tales and Fantasies of Transformation, 1865-1900. 1999. Print.

Hollander, Anne. "Reflections on Little Women." Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 9 (1981): 28-39. Print.

Hollinger, Karen, and Teresa Winterhalter. "A Feminist Romance: Adapting Little Women to the Screen." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 18.2 (1999): 173-92. Print.

Houston, Gail Turley. Consuming Fictions: Gender, Class, and Hunger in Dickens's Novels. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1994. Print.

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