The homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Louisa May Alcott, and Maud Hart Lovelace preserve the places that shaped their classic ...

Haywood Christian Academy will bring Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel, "Little Women," to the stage in a warm, spirited ...

Louisa May Alcott has held up remarkably well. Generations of readers have kept her best-known book, “Little Women,” continuously in print since its publication in 1868. Besides that, Alcott’s ...

Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women," may have written more works than readers were aware of, thanks to a scholar who made an interesting discovery. Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching ...

Louisa May Alcott is no longer regarded as a sentimental author for girls, but as a pioneering writer of the first rank. Photos courtesy of Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Getty/Westend61; Photo ...

When Louisa May Alcott died, The New York Times duly noted the passing of the highest-paid writer of the era. The author of Little Women "did not attempt to do more than she could do well, and her ...

Watercolor of Orchard House by May Alcott Nieriker (c. 1860) (all images courtesy Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House) As a painter who left Concord, Massachusetts to study art in three European cities, ...

Abigail May Alcott’s influence on her daughter is absent in the historic books, says Eve LaPlante in her book “Marmee and Louisa,” but she was a muse for Louisa May Alcott’s famous work. Credit: Jana ...

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: A PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY By Susan Cheever Simon & Schuster, $26 298 pages, illustrated Ever since the mid-20th century, when Madeleine Stern discovered that Louisa May Alcott had ...

“Never liked girls or knew many, except my sisters, but our queer plays and experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it.” So reads the grumbly journal entry of Louisa May Alcott upon ...

At an early screening for “Little Women,” director Greta Gerwig introduced her splendid new film by saying that when she was a child, she idolized the character Jo March, and when she was grown, she ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...