Louisa May
Alcott : Teacher Resource File
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[Bibliography]
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[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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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