The Documentary

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: THE WOMAN BEHIND LITTLE WOMAN The first film biography of an American icon Louisa Alcott’s life was no children’s book: she worked as a servant, a seamstress, and a Civil War nurse before becoming a millionaire celebrity writing “moral pap for the young,” as she called it. Under pen names and anonymously, she also wrote stories with enough drugs, sex and crime to prove the author was no “little” woman. When she died, Alcott took her secret identity as a pulp fiction writer with her, and kept it for nearly a half-century. Starring Elizabeth Marvel and featuring ...

The Book

A vivid, energetic account of the life of the beloved author whose work has delighted millions of readers, Louisa May Alcott portrays a writer as worthy of interest in her own right as her most famous character, Jo March, and addresses all aspects of Alcott’s life: the effect of her father’s self-indulgent utopian schemes; her family’s chronic economic difficulties and frequent uprootings; her experience as a nurse in the Civil War; the loss of her health; and her frequent recourse to opiates in searh of relief from migraines, insomnia, and symptomatic pain. Stories and details culled from Alcott’s ...

News & Events

PBSd Distributes Alcott Video

Washington, DC, August 4, 2015… Nancy Porter and Harriet Reisen have signed on with PBS Distribution and Shop...

Alcott bio makes ALA Notable Videos List

The American Library Association (ALA) Video Round Table Notable Videos for Adults Committee has compiled its...

Daniel Shealy, noted Alcott scholar, to Guide ALA Library Programmers

Professor Daniel Shealy of the University of North Carolina-Charlotte will lead the thirty scholars advising librarians...

David Weinstein of NEH to address library meeting

David Weinstein, Senior Program Officer, Division of Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities will...

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women Library Project Workshop in Boston March 4

Thirty librarians and thirty scholars representing the grant-winning libraries will meet at the Omni Parker House...

ALA announces 30 libraries to receive Louisa May Alcott library outreach grants

CHICAGO – The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office and the National Endowment for the Humanities...

U Albany, Suny to host 2-day Alcott program

Thursday, October 14, 7:30-9 pm University at Albany, SUNY (discussion and clips) Recital Hall, Performing Arts...

NEH Funds Library Programs

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women – Library Outreach Programs Louisa May Alcott: The Woman...

In Heaven’s Name, Give Her a Chance

The 2010 Summer Conversational Series and Teacher Institute Join scholars, educators, and Alcott fans from across...