Alcott in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her LIfe, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates

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[v] * Contents Photographs follow page 152 Introduction vii Chronology xix [Annie Sawyer Downs], [Reminiscences of a Childhood in Concord in the 1840s] 1 Augusta Bowers French, [Louisa May Alcott in 1860] 5 Anne Brown Adams, [Louisa May Alcott in the Early 1860s] 7 Elizabeth B. Greene, [A Visit to the Alcotts in 1864] 12 Moses Coit Tyler, [A Letter about Louisa May Alcott in London] (1866) 15 Anna Alcott Pratt, “A Letter from Miss Alcott’s Sister about ‘Little Women’” (1871) 17 Anonymous, [Louisa May Alcott Visits the Sorosis Club in 1875] 20 Lydia Maria Child, [A Letter about the Alcotts and Orchard House] (1876) 21 Bessie Holyoke, [A Visit with Anna Alcott Pratt] (1878) 23 Anonymous, “Miss Alcott’s Birthplace” (1891) 27 Anonymous, “Mr. Alcott and His Daughters” (1882) 28 Louisa May Alcott, “Recollections of My Childhood” (1888) 32 Lurabel Harlow, From Louisa May Alcott: A Souvenir (1888) 40 Mary Bartol, “The Author of ‘Little Women’” (1888) 42 Frances Bellows Sanborn, “The Alcotts” (1888) 47 Ednah Dow Cheney, From Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals (1889) 53 Maria S. Porter, “Recollections of Louisa May Alcott” (1892) 58 Anna Alcott Pratt, “A Foreword by Meg” (1893) 74 Frank Preston Stearns, From Sketches from Concord and Appledore (1895) 78 Edward W. Emerson, “When Louisa Alcott Was a Girl” (1898) 89 Alfred Whitman, [Reminiscences of “Laurie”] (1901 and 1902) 100 Annie M. L. Clark, From The Alcotts in Harvard (1902) 110 Rebecca Harding Davis, From Bits of Gossip (1904) 124 F. B. Sanborn, “A Concord Notebook: The Women of Concord—III. Louisa Alcott and Her Circle” (1906) 126 Clara Gowing, From The Alcotts as I Knew Them (1909) 133 F. B. Sanborn, “Reminiscences of Louisa May Alcott” (1912) 145 John S. P. Alcott, “The ‘Little Women’ of Long Ago” (1913) 153 Lydia Hosmer Wood, “Beth Alcott’s Playmate: A Glimpse of Concord Town in the Days of Little Women” (1913) 162 Frederick L. H. Willis, From Alcott Memoirs (1915) 169 LaSalle Corbell Pickett, From Across My Path: Memories of People I Have Known (1916) 183 [Russell H. Conwell], [A Visit to Louisa May Alcott] (1917) 186 Julian Hawthorne, [Memories of the Alcott Family] (1922 and 1932) 188 Mary Hosmer Brown, From Memories of Concord (1926) 211 Maude Appleton McDowell, “Louisa May Alcott: By the Original ‘Goldilocks’” (1936) 220 Marion Talbot, “Glimpses of the Real Louisa May Alcott” (1938) 224 Nina Ames Frey, “Miss Clara and Her Friend, Louisa” (1960) 227 Index 233 alcott in her own time [vi] ...