Louisa May Alcott, on books:

...and best of all, the wilderness of books,

in which she could wander, where she liked,

made the library a region of bliss to her.

- Louisa May Alcott.

Louisa May Alcott, on books and reading:

I shall keep my book on the table here,

and read a little every morning as soon as I wake,

for I know it will do me good,

and help me through the day.

– Louisa May Alcott.

Born on this day – Louisa May Alcott:

Louisa May Alcott

Writer

November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888

Credits:

Including titles with Madeleine B. Stern and Susan Beth Pfeffer:

Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868); Good Wives (1869); Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871); Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (1886); Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872); Shawl-Straps (1872); Cupid and Chow Chow (1873); My Girls (1877); Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore Etc. (1879); An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (1882); Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875); Rose in Bloom (1876); The Inheritance (1849); Moods (1864); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869); Work (1873); A Modern Mephistopheles (1877); Under the Lilacs (1878); Jack & Jill (1880); Proverb Stories (1882); Lulu's Library (1886); A Long Fatal Love Chase (1995); Flower Fables (1854); A Modern Cinderella (1860); On Picket Duty, and Other Tales (1864); A Marble Woman (1865); Behind a Mask (1867); Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories (1882); Spinning-Wheel Stories (1884); A Garland for Girls (1887); A Whisper in the Dark (1889); The Louisa Alcott Reader (1908); Glimpses of Louisa (1968); Short Stories (1968); Plots and Counterplots (1976); An Intimate Anthology (1980); Selected Fiction (1980); Hidden Louisa May Alcott (1984); Works of Louisa May Alcott (1986); A Double Life (1988); Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories (1992); The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott (1993); Louisa May Alcott Unmasked (1995); Modern Magic (1995); The Quiet Little Woman (1999); The Poems of Louisa May Alcott (2000); The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860 (2000); Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury (2002); The Brownie and the Princess & Other Stories (2004); Doctor Dorn's Revenge and A Strange Island (2007); The Candy Country and How They Ran Away (2008); Morning-Glories (2009); The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott (2012); Sisters (2017); A Vintage Christmas (2018); May Flowers (2019); A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories (2019); Transcendental Wild Oats (1873); Marjorie's Three Gifts (1899); Diana & Persis (1978); Kate's Choice (2001); Debby's Debut (2010); Love and Self Love (2010); Pauline's Passion and Punishment (1862); The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treheme's Temptation (1867); Perilous Play, And, Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse (1869); Poppies and Wheat (1900); Trudel's Siege (1976); Scarlet Stockings (2004); The Baron's Gloves (2005); Silver Pitchers and Independence (2007); Little Button Rose (2008); The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (2010); The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts (2013); The Death of John (2013); The Cross on the Old Church Tower (2013); On Picket Duty (2014); Doctor Dorn's Revenge (2015); Effie's Christmas Dream (2015); The Dolls' Journey (2015); The Blind Lark (2016); Comic Tragedies (2016); How They Ran Away (2016); Sophie's Secret (2016); Lilybell and Thistledown (2016); The Brownie and the Princess (2017); Kitty's Class Day (2018); Pansies and Water-Lilies (2018); The Mysterious Key (2019); Lost in a Pyramid (2019); Civil War Hospital Sketches (1863); Hospital Sketches (1863); Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (1866); Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (1889); The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott (1987); The Journals Of Louisa May Alcott (1989); The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846 (1993); Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery (1997); The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott (2001); Louisa May Alcott's Civil War (2006); Meg's Story (1997); Jo's Story (1997); Beth's Story (1997); Amy's Story (1997); Meg Makes a Friend (1998); Jo Makes a Friend (1998); Beth Makes a Friend (1998); Amy Makes a Friend (1998); Christmas Dreams (1998); A Gift for Jo (1999); A Gift for Meg (1999); A Gift for Amy (1999); Birthday Wishes (1999); Ghostly Tales (2000); A St. Nicholas Anthology (1969); The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2016); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); Women Who Wrote (2020); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023).

Movie and television adaptations:

Louisa's Legacy: Little Women and Orchard House (2020); Little Women (2019); Radioteatro de Navidad de la Cadena Ser (2018); I riassuntini (2018); Little Women (2018); Little Women (2017); A Frozen Christmas (2016); The Inheritance (2013); The March Sisters at Christmas (2012); An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008); Great Performances (2001); Little Men (1998-1999); Little Men (1998); The Inheritance (1997); Little Women (1994); Wakakusa monogatari nan to Jô sensei (1993); Quattro piccole donne (1989); Ai no wakakusa monogatari (1987); No hay por qué llorar (1985); Wakakusa monogatari yori wakakusa no yonshimai (1981); Little Women (1980); Little Women (1979); Little Women (1978); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1976); NBC Special Treat (1975); Adorables mujercitas (1974); Mujercitas (1973); Little Women (1970); NBC Children's Theatre (1969); Novela (1964–1967); Dai lu nian hua (1967); Rosella (1964); Mujercitas (1963); Mujercitas (1962); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960–1961); La Hora Fate (1960); Jo's Boys (1959); Mulherzinhas (1959); Little Women (1958); Good Wives (1958); Little Women (1958); Primavera (1958); Xiao fu ren (1957); Grande Teatro Tupi (1957); Matinee Theatre (1956); Fu Lan jie jie (1956); A Girl Called Jo (1956); Piccole donne (1955); Encounter (1955); Music and Macaroni (1955); Little Women (1950–1951); Studio One (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); Little Women (1949); An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949); Little Women (1946); Little Men (1940); Little Women (1939); Little Men (1934); Little Women (1933); Little Women (1918); Little Women (1917).