Thoughts on the life-changing power of Little Women, my mother, and the search for Marmee: haleystewart.substack.com/p/searching-fo…

Do you have research to share on Alcott and archival collections or her novel WORK (1873)? If so, please consider proposing a paper for our sessions at the ALA conference in Boston (May 25-28, 2023): americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/upl…

Save the date! April 27 6:30-8:00 PM, the Concord Free Public Library will host (in person and virtual) the first event for the Joel Myerson annual lecture series! Margaret Fuller Society Louisa May Alcott Society The Thoreau Society American Literature Association concordlibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/joel-…

Domestic/Sentiment Division, Round 2: Matchup 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables vs Louisa May Alcott's Little Women

Y’all: it is 50/50. 50/50! Where are my Marchers?!

Waiting with bated breath for the next installment of the C19 Americanists bracket vote.

Little Women is in the final four. Today is the day to vote it into the final matchup against Moby-Dick. Please vote! Go Alcott!

Congratulations to our 2023 Sarah Elbert Travel Grant Winners, Jill Fuller and Lauren Hehmeyer! They'll be presenting at The Thoreau Society Gathering in July. louisamayalcottsociety.org/2023/05/winner…

The Alcott Society is delighted to announce that the winner of the inaugural Beverly Lyon Clark Article Prize is Sandy Petrulionis for “‘Faithfulness Itself’: The Imperative for Hannah Mullet in Little Women” from Little Women at 150. Congratulations! louisamayalcottsociety.org/2023/05/petrul…

Join us next month for our annual Louisa May Alcott birthday event on Sun, Nov 26 at 3pm ET at tinyurl.com/LouAlcott2023. Our special guest this year is Peyton Thomas. More info on our website: louisamayalcottsociety.org/2023/10/celebr…

Share your Alcott research with us! The Alcott Society is hosting 3 awesome panels at the May 2024 American Lit Assoc Conference: Proposal deadline: Jan 15. Details here: louisamayalcottsociety.org/2023/10/call-f…

Great authors. Also: Kathleen Alcalá (Spirits of the Ordinary), María Amparo Escandón (Esperanza's Box of Saints), Christina Garcia (Dreaming in Cuban)?

We are organizing three amazing panels on Alcott for the upcoming American Literature Association conference in Chicago (May 23-26). If you're doing work on Alcott and gender or Whitman or democracy or performance or drama or teaching, we want to hear from you. Details here: louisamayalcottsociety.org/2023/10/call-f…

And we have travel grants for students and non-tenure scholars to present research on Alcott. If you're interested, you can find the details on our website: louisamayalcottsociety.org/2023/12/sarah-…

"Boston scholar finds new Louisa May Alcott writings under pseudonym" csmonitor.com/Books/2024/011…

Join the Alcott Society at the ALA Conference on Fri, May 24th, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago. Our sessions are scheduled for 8:30am, 10:00am, and 2:30pm. We will have a business meeting at 5:30. Details in the program: americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conference… Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to Dr. Azelina Flint (Dr Azelina Flint) on winning the Alcott Society's 2024 Clark Article Prize for her essay in Horror Studies titled "A Marble Woman: Is the Omen Good or Ill?"