Louisa May Alcott: the contemporary reviews

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This collection of nineteenth-century reviews provides a wealth of information for scholars interested in Alcott (increasing the number of indexed reviews almost tenfold) but also insight into the ways in which reading audiences were constructed in the nineteenth-century United States. The reviews provide a window on to nineteenth-century attitudes toward popular fiction and toward women writers. The author of the novels and of sensational tales, of travel writing and of temperance tracts, Alcott was both highly popular and highly respected. Her works were reviewed not just in magazines for children, but also in the most prestigious literary journals of the day. Series editor's preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Flower Fables (1855: reprinted, with additions, as The Frost King, vol. 2 of Lulu's Library, 1887) 2. Hospital Sketches (1863: reprinted in Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories, 1869) 3. On Picket Duty and Other Tales (1864) 4. Moods (1865: revised edition, 1882) 5. Morning Glories, and Other Stories (1868, 1871) 6. Kitty's Class-Day, Aunt Kipp, Psyche's Art (1868: reprinted together in Louisa May Alcott's Proverb Stories, 1868) 7. Little Women: or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (Part 1, 1868 Part 2, 1869) 8. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870) 9. Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871) 10. My Boys, vol. 1 of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (London, 1871, 1872) 11. Shawl-Straps, vol. 2 of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872) 12. Work: A Story of Experience (1873) 13. Cupid and Chow-Chow, vol. 3 of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1874) 14. Eight Cousins: or, The Ant-Hill (1875) 15. Silver Pitchers: Independence, A Centennial Love Story (1876) 16. Rose in Bloom A Sequel to ' Eight Cousins' (1876) 17. A Modern Mephistopheles (1877: reprinted with A Whisper in the Dark, 1889) 18. My Girls, vol. 4 of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1878) 19. Under the Lilacs (1878) 20. Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, vol. 5. of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1879) 21. Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880) 22. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, vol. 6 of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1882) 23. Spinning- Wheel Stories (1884) 24. A Christmas Dream, vol. 1 of Lulu's Library (1886) 25. Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little Men' (1886) 26. A Garland for Girls (1888) 27. Recollections, vol. 3 of Lulu's Library (1889) 28. Comic Tragedies, Written by 'Jo' and 'Meg' and Acted by the 'Little Women' (1893) Index.