Marmee & Louisa (66 page)

¹³²²
half a million books:
The New York Times
, “Miss LMA. Interesting Information Concerning the Popular Author. From the Boston Herald,” April 28, 1880.

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Sales figures and translations: Lavinia Russ, “Not to Be Read on Sunday,”
Critical Essays on LMA
, ed. Madeleine B. Stern, 99–100.

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“Old Cato”: Henry Blackwell,
Woman’s Journal
, December 29, 1888, quoted in
Memoir of SES
, 163.

Bibliography

Waterford (Maine) Historical Society, Abigail May Alcott letters, private collection.

Boston Public Library, Alcott and May papers.

Concord Free Public Library, Alcott papers, Franklin B. Sanborn papers.

Connecticut State Library, church records of Brooklyn, Connecticut.

Cornell University Library, Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery and Civil War Collection, May Family Papers.

First Parish Church of Norwell, Massachusetts, formerly South Scituate, Massachusetts, Samuel Joseph May collection.

Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts, Alcott papers.

Germantown (Pennsylvania) Historical Society, Alcott papers, Wyck papers.

Houghton Library, Harvard University, Alcott Pratt collections, including papers of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, A. Bronson Alcott, Anna Alcott Pratt, Elizabeth S. Alcott, A. May Alcott, Alfred Whitman, and the Pratt Alcott family.

Library of Congress, Civil War photographs and papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Louise Chandler Moulton, and National American Women’s Suffrage Association.

Louisa May Alcott Association, Orchard House, Concord, Massachusetts, Alcott papers, books, and artifacts.

Massachusetts Historical Society, collections of Sewall, May-Windship-Barker-Archibald, May, Alcott, Willis, Frothingham, and Hancock families.

May Memorial Church, Syracuse, New York, papers of Samuel Joseph May.

May, Samuel Joseph, unpublished letters, 1822–1865, private collection.

Norwell (formerly South Scituate), Massachusetts, Historical Society, Historic Homesteads collection.

Onondaga Historical Society, Syracuse, New York, collections of Samuel Joseph May, the Church of the Messiah, Abolitionism, and nineteenth-century Syracuse.

University of Rochester, Bragdon Family Papers, 1836–1968.

Schlesinger Library, May and Goddard family collection, 1766–1912.

Smith College Archives, Charlotte Coffyn [
sic
] Wilkinson Bragdon Papers, 1890–1962.

Wilkinson, Charlotte Coffin May, unpublished memoir and letters, private collection.

Alcott, A. Bronson.
A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy
, eds. F. B. Sanborn and W. T. Harris. 2 vols. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893.

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The Letters of A. Bronson Alcott
. Ed. Richard L. Herrnstadt. Ames: Iowa State Univ. Press, 1969.

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The Journals of Bronson Alcott
. Ed. Odell Shepard. Boston: 1938. Portions of Abigail’s journals, transcribed by Bronson before burning, are included herein.

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Maternal Influence
. Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1933.

Alcott, Abigail May.
Abigail May Alcott’s receipts & simple remedies : best way of doing difficult things all tried and proved
. Concord, MA: Nancy L. Kohl and the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association, 1980.

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Mrs. Alcott’s Cookbook
. Concord, MA: Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association, 1976.

Alcott, Louisa May.
Alternative Alcott
. Ed. Elaine Showalter. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1988.

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Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag
. 3 vols. Published 1872, 1879, and 1882.

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Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
. Ed. Madeleine Stern. New York: William Morrow, 1984.

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Comic Tragedies
. Published 1893.

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Diana and Persis
, novella published posthumously.

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A Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
. Eds. Madeleine Stern, Joel Myerson, and Daniel Shealy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.

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The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott
. Intro., Monika Elbert. Forest Hills, NY: Ironweed Press, 2000.

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Eight Cousins
. Published 1875.

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Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories
. Ed. Joel Myerson. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1992. Composed 1854.

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The Feminist Alcott: Stories of a Woman’s Power
. Ed. Madeleine Stern. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1996.

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From Jo March’s Attic: Stories of Intrigue and Suspense
. Eds. Madeleine B. Stern and Daniel Shealy. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1993.

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A Garland for Girls
. Published 1887.

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Hospital Sketches
. Published 1863.

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The Inheritance
. Composed 1848, published posthumously.

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Jack and Jill
. Published 1880.

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Jo’s Boys
. Published 1886.

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The Journals of Louisa May Alcott
. Eds. Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1997.

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Little Men
. Published 1871.

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Little Women
. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1946. Composed and published 1868.

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A Long Fatal Love Chase
. Composed 1866, published posthumously.

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The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott: Stories of Intrigue and Suspense
. Eds. Madeleine B. Stern and Daniel Shealy. Seacaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1995.

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Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers
. Ed. Madeleine Stern. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1995.

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Lulu’s Library
. 3 vols. Published 1885, 1887, and 1889.

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A Modern Mephistopheles
. Published 1877 anonymously.

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Mood
s. Published 1864, 1882.

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Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. New York: Morrow, 1976.

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The Portable Louisa May Alcott
. Edited and introduced by Elizabeth L. Keyser. New York: Penguin, 2000.

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Rose in Bloom
. Published 1876.

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The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott
. Eds. Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1995.

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Silver Pitchers
. Published 1876.

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Spinning-Wheel Stories
. Published 1884.

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Transcendental Wild Oats
. Published 1873.

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Under the Lilacs
. Published 1878.

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Work
.
A Story of Experience
. New York: Schocken, 1997.

———, and May Alcott.
Little Women Abroad: The Alcott Sisters’ Letters from Europe, 1870–71
. Daniel Shealy, ed. Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2008.

Allen, William G., Mary King, and Louisa May Alcott.
The American Prejudice Against Color
. Edited and introduced by Sarah Elbert. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 2002.

Anthony, Susan B., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds.
History of Woman Suffrage
. 3 vols. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881–1886.

Child, Lydia Maria.
Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, 1817–1880
, microfiche edition. Accessed online, April 27, 2012.

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Hobomok & Other Writings on Indians
. Ed. Carolyn L. Karcher. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1986.

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Lydia Maria Child: Selected Letters, 1817–1880
. Eds. Milton Meltzer and Patricia G. Holland. Amherst, MA: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1982.

Dall, Caroline W. Healey.
Margaret and Her Friends: Or, Ten Conversations with Margaret Fuller upon the Mythology of the Greeks and Its Expression in Art
. New York: Arno, 1972.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843–1871
, 2 vols. Eds. Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson. Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2001.

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Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
, 6 vols. Eds. Ralph L. Rusk and Eleanor M. Tilton. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1939.

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Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
. Eds. Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson. Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2005.

Freeman, James. “Charge to the Pastor,”
A Sermon Preached in Brooklyn, Connecticut, at the Installation of Rev. Samuel Joseph May
, November 5, 1823, by James Walker of Charlestown. Boston: John B. Russell, 1824.

Garrison, William Lloyd.
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
, 6 vols. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1971–1979.

Garrison, William Lloyd.
William Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879: The Story of His Life Told By His Children
. New York: Century, 1885.

Hunt, Freeman, ed. “Joseph May,”
Lives of American Merchants
, vol. 1, 443–50. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858.

A Liturgy for the Use of the Church at King’s Chapel in Boston: Collected Principally from the Book of Common Prayer
. Boston: Press of the Christian Examiner, 1828.

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, and other newspapers on nineteenth-century abolitionism and women’s rights. Viewed at
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and on Internet archives.

Lee, Luther.
Autobiography of the Rev. Luther Lee
. New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1882.

May, Joseph.
Memoir of Colonel Joseph May, 1760–1841
. Boston: Clapp & Son, 1873. Compiled by Samuel May and published in
The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal
. Boston: April 1873, vol. 27, no. 2, 113–22.

May, Samuel Joseph.
Memoir of Samuel Joseph May
. Autobiographical essay, diaries, and memoirs compiled by George B. Emerson and Thomas J. Mumford, published posthumously. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873.

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Jesus the Best Teacher of his Religion, a Discourse
. 1847.

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Some recollections of our antislavery conflict
. 1869.

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Memorial of the quarter-centennial celebration of the establishment of normal schools in America
. 1866.

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What do Unitarians believe?
1856, 1860, 1866, 1867.

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The true story of the barons of the South; or, The rationale of the American conflict
. 1862.

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On redemption by Jesus Christ
. Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1847.

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Christian Monitor, and Common People’s Advisor
. First volume of a serial publication, 1832.

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On prejudice
. 1831.

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The Revival of Education
. 1855.

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Memorial of the Quarter-Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of Normal Schools in America
. 1866.

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A Brief Account of his Ministry
. 1867.

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The right of colored people to education, vindicated: letters to Andrew T. Judson, Esq. and others in Canterbury, Conn., remonstrating with them on their unjust and unjustifiable procedure relative to Miss
[
Prudence
]
Crandall and her school for colored females
. Brooklyn, CT: Advertiser Press, 1833.

———. “Liberty or slavery the only question,” oration delivered on the Fourth of July, 1856, at Jamestown, NY.

———. “The Rights and Condition of Women,” sermon preached in Syracuse, November 1845, published as a chapter of
Commensurate with Her Capacities and Obligations Are Woman’s Rights: A Series of Tracts
. Syracuse: Lathrop, 1853.

———. “Speech of Rev. Samuel J. May to the convention of citizens of Onondaga County, in Syracuse, on the 14th of October, 1851, called ‘to consider the principles of the American government, and the extent to which they are trampled underfoot by the fugitive slave law,’ occasioned by an attempt to enslave an inhabitant of Syracuse.” Syracuse: Agan & Summers, 1851.

———. “Emancipation in the British W. Indies,” August 1, 1834: an address delivered in the First Presbyterian Church in Syracuse, on August 1, 1845. Syracuse: J. Barber, 1845.

———. “A discourse on slavery in the United States,” delivered in Brooklyn, Conn., July 3, 1831. 1832.

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Sewall, Samuel E.
Samuel E. Sewall; A Memoir
. Edited by Nina Moore Tiffany. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1898.