On a beautiful morning, after her mother helps her dress, the little Louisa sneaks out and runs away as fast as she can. She has no plan: “She does not care so very much just where she goes so long as ...

This video, promoting a PBS biopic that ties into the recent biography “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind ‘Little Women,’ ” by Harriet Reisen, is called “Five Things You Don’t Know About Louisa May ...

Louisa May Alcott has long been the favorite children's writer of literary women from Gertrude Stein to Nora Ephron. And almost every Alcott fan chooses Jo March, from "Little Women," as her favorite ...

Discover the real-life people behind the characters in Louisa May Alcott's classic "Little Women," coming to MASTERPIECE May ...

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women and its sequels Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys.

Louisa May Alcott, whose girlhood reads like a weepy Victorian novel, wrote one of America's best-loved books, "Little Women." First published in 1868, Alcott's gem was a runaway best-seller destined ...

New Englander Eve LaPlante’s genealogy has propelled her into becoming the biographer of some remarkable characters in America’s colonial past, including Puritan renegade Anne Hutchinson and Samuel ...

Civil War nurse, social justice warrior and even, briefly, resident of a commune: Most people know Louisa May Alcott as the author of Little Women, but she was so much more. Rosenberg draws on ...

Preface: a trip to Concord -- Trailing clouds of glory, 1832-1849 -- Concord. Louisa in exile, 1840-1843 -- Fruitlands. Family in crisis, 1843-1848 -- Boston. "Stick to your teaching", 1848-1858 -- ...

A special encore broadcast of American Masters — Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind ‘Little Women’ airs nationwide Sunday, May 20 at 10 p.m. on PBS (check ...

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT is an interesting person for herself, as a representative of the generally unappreciated but fascinating Alcott family, and as an example of the period when the New England mind was ...