The enduring classic "Little Women" 07:50 One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, in a house in Concord, Massachusetts, Louisa May Alcott wrote one of the most beloved books in American literature, "I ...

"Little Women," the new movie inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel, is set when and where she wrote it -- in mid-1800s Massachusetts.

Part of "Little Women's" popularity stems from its semiautobiographical nature, but Louisa May Alcott was far more revolutionary and fascinating than even the beloved Jo March.

Approaching the Victorian mansion, which sparkles like a jewel in the middle of a downwardly mobile neighborhood near downtown L.A., it’s easy to imagine being stuck in a time warp. Ladies an… ...

Tom Conti lies in an opulent wooden bed at a pivotal moment in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘The Inheritance.’ It’s rough when an actor has to compete with furniture, but the consummate Conti ...

Susan Cheever spent, she says, 10 years writing about Louisa May Alcott, which presumably includes the time used to write her previous book about Alcott and the rest of the Concord literary group ...

For those who know Louisa May Alcott only as the author of some of the most enduring classics of children’s literature, “Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind ‘Little Women’ ” will be a ...

Louisa May Alcott’s #MeToo moment marked her permanently. A friend related that she rarely spoke of it in later years, but when she did, it was with tears in her eyes.

Louisa May Alcott was known to publish under various names throughout her writing career, but this discovery marks the first time any new pseudonym has been linked to Alcott since the 1940s.

Louisa May Alcott inscribed her first book, "Flower Fables," published in 1854, to her mother with this acknowledgment: "Whatever beauty or poetry is to be found in my little book is owing to your ...

IDEAS The Christmas miracle of a newly unearthed story by Louisa May Alcott A researcher in Boston uncovers a holiday story that broadens our understanding of the ‘Little Women’ author’s genius.

A previously unpublished piece by Louisa May Alcott, the author best known for her novel “Little Women,” is now available in print for the first time. The piece, “Aunt Nellie’s Diary ...