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Check out the new photo-essay on Louisa May Alcott's home in Concord

• The official Louisa May Alcott site: this is the Orchard House page, where Alcott lived for a number of years (and the place that the movie was based on-- I believe they even filmed some exterior shots there.
• The Louisa May Alcott Web this is the ultimate Louisa May Alcott page. Tara Calishain has compiled the most complete listing of biographical and other sources on Alcott that I have seen on the Internet. The page includes FAQ, other links, and lots of great photos. I urge you to visit this site! You won't regret it.
• Celebration of Women Writers-- this is a link to their "A" pages. Use "Contro +F" to find Alcott's name. Includes E-texts that do not appear elsewhere-- includes Flower Fables and the whole text of Hospital Sketches. (Special thanks to Mary Mark for letting me know about these!)
• A link to another online excerpt of Hospital Sketches
• Atlantic Unbound's magazine article on Alcott
• Fruitlands The Alcott family lived for a while in a farmhouse near what is today Harvard Massachusetts. The experiment in communal living was not successful, and Alcott wrote about it in her very funny short roman a clef "Transcendental Wild Oats." You can visit the homepage of the museum that is now on the site of the farm. Click here to go to my discussion of Transcendental Wild Oats.
• Alcott's gravestone Yes, you can see a photo of Alcott's gravestone. She is buried in Concord, Massachusetts, and her body is arranged across the feet of her mother, Abba, her sister Lizzie, and her father, Bronson, although this picture does not show the set up very well.
• Bibliography This is UVA's bibliographic listing of Alcott's works. It is an excellent source for more information.
• "I hear America Singing Page" This page has a good biographical study of both Louisa and Bronson. There are also good pages on other American authors. Check it out!
• Two images from Alcott's short story Pauline's Passion and Punishment part of one of the critical papers, which you can find here.

Last update: November 2003

Note: Links frequently move, or disappear entirely. No links collection is ever easy to update. If one of the above links doesn't work, try another. If you still can't find what you need, try a good search engine-- I like the Mamma Search Engine for new pages, and Google.com but some links will be "so-so". Then, remember to try the library! Not everything is available online. You sometimes need to pick up a real book.