Louisa May Alcott : Teacher Resource File



Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Louisa May Alcott page. You will find biography, bibliography, lesson plans and other resources. The ISLMC is a meta-site for librarians, teachers, students and parents. You can search this site, use an index or sitemap. You will find more authors at Children and Young Adults Authors & Illustrators Page update 7/12/02.



[
Biography] [E-texts] [Bibliography] [ERIC Resources] [Lesson Plans]

See also: Amos Bronson Alcott

Biography

All Alcott; The Louisa May Alcott Web Page
Great site.
I Hear America Singing--The Alcotts
Biographical information on Bronson, Abigail and Louisa May Alcott. From PBS
Little Women
Biography; chapter summaries; etext
A Celebration of Women Writers. A Index
Locate Alcott in alphabetical order; more links here
The National Women's Hall of Fame. Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888
Louisa May Alcott, domestic goddess
Biography; critical theory; bibliography; links; partial text of Alcott's
A. M. Barnard story: Behind a Mask: or A Woman's Power
Louisa May Alcott
Biography, picture
Little Women
Who are the real people behind the characters?
Alcotts and Orchard House
Home of the Alcotts in Concord, Massachusetts. Take a house tour
Orchard House
Picture of Orchard House from Alcott Web; also Bronson Alcott's School of Philosophy.
From Literary Locales
Louisa May Alcott
Biographical sketch from Penguin Putnam

[Back to Top]

E-texts

An Old-Fashioned Girl
From Project Gutenberg
Concordances - Louisa May Alcott
Keyword searchable concordance to Little Women and Flower Fables
Eight Cousins
From Project Gutenberg
Little Women
Full e-text of Little Women and The Flower Fables,
Jack and Jill, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Rose in Bloom,
Jo's Boys, Little Men.
Little Women
Chapter summaries; etext; biography; bibliography
OFCN Bookshelf-Flower Fables Texts
Marjorie's Three Gifts
From Project Gutenberg
A Modern Cinderella, or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories
From Project Gutenberg
The Mysterious Key
From Project Gutenberg
On Picket Duty, and Other Tales
From Project Gutenberg
Celebration of Women Writers
Links to Hospital Sketches, Little Men,
The Mysterious Key, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Rose in Bloom
"A Day" from Hospital Sketches and Camp Fireside Stories
Excerpts; From University of Virginia
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
Lovely edition from Victoriana's Gallery Etext
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
From Great Literature Online; etext
Under the Lilacs
From Project Gutenberg
Work : A Story of Experience
From Project Gutenberg
Quotations from Louisa May Alcott

[Back to Top]

Bibliography

Selected Bibliography
Holdings of UVA. Her works; criticism
Selected Bibliography
Works by Alcott; monographic sources about her
Invincible Louisa
1934 Newbery Medal Winner by Cornelia Meigs. Excellent juvenile biography of Alcott.

[Back to Top]

ERIC Resources

ERIC documents are relatively inexpensive. Please search AskEric directly for citations.

The Personal Past as Inspiration: Authors Honor Their Life Experiences in Their Stories

By Marcia Baghban. [Little Women]
Who Cares about Girls? Rethinking the Meaning of Teaching
By Susan Laird. [Little Women]
Love's Labor's Reward: The Sentimental Economy of Louisa May Alcott's "Work."
By Tara Fitzpatrick, NWSA Journal
Domesticity versus Identity: A Review of Alcott Research
Examines three recent books on Alcott
Louisa May Alcott and the Revolution in Education
Discusses educational philosophies of Louisa May and Bronson Alcott
Spirited Females of the Nineteenth Century;: Liberated Moods in "Little Women
Discusses how female characters in Little Women break
nineteenth-century stereotypes
Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys
Book about the genre of school stories
The Oxford Book of Children's Stories
Notable Women: Grades 4-6
Lesson plans
Child Writers in Children's Literature
How child writers are portrayed in children's literature

[Back to Top]

Lesson Plans

Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Her Times and Her Literature
Grades 3 to 5; literature, social studies; by Jean C. Gallogly;
from Yale New Haven Lesson Plans
Literature Reading and Research in a Middle School Classroom
Article and research project with middle school students
Woman Emerging in the Twentieth Century
11th & 12th grade English. By Bernice Thompson from Yale New Haven
Novel Guide: Little Women
From Novelguide.com

[Back to Top]


Return to:
Children's & YA Authors & Illustrators
American Literature
Children's Literature/Elementary Resources

YA Literature/Middle & Secondary Resources



Site Administrator: Inez Ramsey, Professor Emeritus
James Madison University
E-mal: ramseyil@jmu.edu