The Portable Louisa May Alcott

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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint two
selections from The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott, editors,
Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy, associate editor, Madeleine B. Stern
(Little, Brown). Copyright © the Estate of Theresa W. Pratt, 1987.
Used by permission.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.
The portable Louisa May Alcott / edited and with an introduction by
Elizabeth Lennox Keyser.
p. cm.—(The Viking portable library)
Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN : 978-1-101-17704-4

1. New England—Social life and customs—Fiction. 2. Alcott, Louisa
May, 1832-1888—Correspondence. 3. Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888—
Diaries. 4. Authors, American—19th century—Correspondence.
5. Authors, American—19th century—Diaries. 6. New England—
Intellectual life—19th century. I. Keyser, Elizabeth Lennox, 1942-
II.Title. III. Series.

PS1016.K49 2000
813’.4—dc21 99-057115

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