In her new book, the historian Tiya Miles shows how formative outdoor experiences helped diverse women — from Harriet Tubman to Indigenous athletes — transcend prescribed social and gender roles. By ...

Louisa May Alcott was one of the greatest writers of English classics and her works are read in school and college curriculums even today. Much ahead .

In January, 1861, Louisa May Alcott began writing a novel that she planned to call “Success.” Alcott was twenty-eight and living at Orchard House, the family home in Concord, Massachusetts. That same ...

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

Author Louisa May Alcott, who portrayed liberated, thoughtful and independent women at a time when her message conflicted with social norms, was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on this ...

Alcott had been the primary breadwinner for her family since her teenage years, but the days when she had to seize every job she could find just for the cash were long gone. Now 49, the American ...

Playwright Lauren Gunderson has an affinity for 19th century female authors, as evidenced by her adaptations inspired by Jane Austen and now by “Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women,” receiving its world ...

“I am more than half-persuaded that I am, by some freak of nature, a man’s soul put into a woman’s body.” “Always believing she should have been born a boy,” writes John Matteson, in Eden’s Outcasts, ...

A researcher believes he has a batch of 14 previously unattributed works written by the author of “Little Women” — under a pseudonym. Louisa May Alcott was known to publish under various names ...

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, ...

So you haven't read Little Women by Louisa May Alcott? Then have a seat as we follow the life of a young hotheaded woman in this coming-of-age story. One that seems to mimic parts of the author's own ...

Two new reboots of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic give the March sisters’ story a darker and more contemporary spin. By Sadie Stein A visit to the English manor that inspired “A Secret Garden” or ...