One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, in a house in Concord, Massachusetts, Louisa May Alcott wrote one of the most beloved books in American literature, "I don't remember ever not knowing what 'Little ...

CONCORD, Mass. — A century and a half before the #MeToo movement gave women a bold, new collective voice, Louisa May Alcott was lending them her own. Society had far different expectations of women in ...

Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, based on Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel of the same name, doesn’t seem like an adaptation that would end any differently than the various film, television, radio, stage, ...

Louisa May Alcott’s novel “Little Women” may have been published in two parts across 1868 and 1869, but the sprawling family tale is anything but a sentimental period piece. One of the best-selling ...

In the annals of irresponsible utopianism, few names stand out like that of Bronson Alcott. This dreamy 19th-century son of New England was a high-minded Transcendentalist and visionary teacher, and, ...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The author of “Little Women” may have been even more productive and sensational than previously thought. Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern ...

An illustration and title page to the book Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, appear in an 1869 edition of the book at Orchard House, in Concord, Mass. Since "Little Women" was published 150 years ...

“Aunt Nellie’s Diary” was penned by the famous author when she was only 17. It has been published for the first time in The Strand Magazine. By Jacey Fortin A previously unpublished piece by Louisa ...

The story of the March sisters and the American Civil War comes to the stage this weekend in a high school production of “Little Women.” Theater students at Wilson Memorial High School will bring ...

A few years ago, two ribbon-tied packets of letters were discovered in a secret niche inside a Victorian writing desk in Lexington, Massachusetts. The find revealed a stunning friendship between Emily ...

Harvard historian Tiya Miles on how some of American history’s most remarkable young women forged their truest selves beyond the confines of home. A few years before the Civil War, Harriet Tubman told ...