The photo isn’t of Louisa. It’s her sister, Anna Alcott Pratt, next to a photo of her husband, John Pratt ... woman had a receding chin and Louisa May has sort of a chin that sticks out ...

It is doubtful whether any novel has been more important to America’s female writers than Louisa May Alcott’s “Little ... to by Laurie’s tutor, John Brook, a good man, and she accepts.

A special encore broadcast of American Masters — Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind ‘Little Women’ airs nationwide Sunday, May 20 at 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) and will be ...

After reading Susan Cheever’s biography of Louisa May Alcott ... Cheever’s biography of her own father, John Cheever, haunts her account of Alcott’s life. Both books describe an upper ...