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ABC’s The Family Channel, 100
Adamo, Mark, 110–12, 179
Addams, Jane, 70
adolescence, 187, 188, 189, 190, 194–96
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 49, 116, 121, 133, 161, 164, 166, 183
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain), 161–62, 179, 183
The Alchemist (Coelho), 165
Alcott, Abigail May, 5, 28, 30, 67
Marmee and, 23, 27–28, 36–37, 45
marriage and, 22–28, 158, 201–2
social work and, 32–33
Alcott, Anna (“Nan”), 6–67, 30, 39, 66, 71
marriage of, 38–40
Meg March and, 20, 38–40, 44
Alcott, Bronson, 16, 21, 35, 38, 42–43, 105, 116
Conversations with Children on the Gospels, 13–14, 24
Emerson and, 4, 21
family separations and, 32–33
founder of Fruitlands, 67
impractical idealism of, 8–9, 22–29
in Little Men (Alcott), 65–67
mental instability and, 26
Mr. March character and, 27
rehabilitation of, 67–69
Temple School, 24, 65, 67, 202
transcendentalism and, 4–5
Alcott, Frederick, 82
Alcott, John Pratt, 71, 82
Alcott, Lizzie, 29, 36, 65
Beth March character and, 20, 35–38
death of, 38
family separations and, 32–33
illness and, 35, 37–38
Alcott, Louisa May, xiii, 3–4, 25, 35, 64–66, 97, 100, 106, 115, 203, 211. See also specific works
adolescence and, 191
adolescent girls married in works of, 185
American colloquialisms and, 49
biographical essay about, 74
copyright and, 62
death of, 70
effect of Lizzie Alcott’s death on, 37–38
father and, 27
feminism and, 145, 149
illness, 10
illustrations of Little Women and, 54–56, 58
Jo March character and, 28–31, 34, 41, 43, 92, 151–54, 156–57
Laurie (Theodore Laurence) character and, 43
Alcott, Louisa May (continued)
in London, 64
Marmee character and, 27–28
marriage and, 44, 158–59
Mr. March character and, 23–24
nursing during the Civil War, 9–10
popularity of, 69–70, 109–10
realism and, 136, 138, 144
sister Anna’s marriage and, 42
thrillers written under a pseudonym, 120
trip to Europe, 12–13, 42, 64
writing and, 9, 32–35
See also titles of individual works
Alcott, Lulu (Louisa), 71, 82
Alcott, May, 5–6, 33, 35, 38, 41
Amy March character and, 20, 41–42
daughter Louisa (Lulu), 71, 82
frontispiece of first edition of Little Women and, 51, 58
illustration of Beth welcoming Mr. March home and, 50, 53
illustrations by for Little Women, 42, 51–52
trip to Europe, 64–65
Alcott family, 29, 40
The Gilmore Girls and, 215–17
Hillside, home in Concord, MA, 30, 32, 65
March family and, 19–20, 32
Orchard House, home in Concord, MA, 5, 16, 38, 40, 42, 45, 67–68, 85, 106, 109
separations due to poverty, 32
“Alcott’s Civil War” (Fetterley), 149–50
Alexander, Elizabeth, 123
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 186
All in the Family, 149
All-Of-A-Kind Family (Taylor), 133
Allyson, June, 95, 110–11
portrayal of Jo March, 92–93, 94, 96–97
Alvarado, Trini, portrayal of Meg March, 103, 107
Alvarez, Julia, 132
Amanpour, Christiane, 214
American Association of University Women, 189
American Novels, 91
American Psychological Association, 190
The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (Mathiessen), 116
Amidon, Stephen, 109
“Amy Had Golden Curls; Jo Had a Rat. Who Would You Rather Be?” (James), 194
Amy March (character)
acted by Elizabeth Taylor, 89, 93–94, 94, 95, 95
acted by Kirsten Dunst, 103, 107
adolescence and, 188
gender and, 146, 191–93
in A Girl Called Jo (1955), 99
illustration of by Clara Burd, 74
illustration of by Hammatt Billings, 55–56, 55
in Little Women (1912 Broadway play, dir. Bonstelle), 83–84
in Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor), 90
in Little Women (1949 film, dir. LeRoy), 97
in Little Women (Alcott), 14–15, 30, 181, 194
in The Little Women (Weber), 129
May Alcott and, 20, 41–42
in radio dramatizations of Little Women (Alcott), 91
Samantha Mathis and, 107
Anglican Church, 47
Animax, 100
Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery), 126, 128, 166, 208
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Alcott), 60–61, 64
Armstrong, Gillian, 101, 103–4, 107, 109, 151, 190. See also Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong)
Astor, Mary, 93–94
Atik, Chiara, 217
Atkinson, Kate, 132–33
Atlantic Monthly, 6–8, 11–12
Atwood, Margaret, 125
Auerbach, Nina, 119, 149
Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag (Alcott), 68
Aunt March (character)
acted by Angela Lansbury, 114
in Little Women (1949 film, dir. LeRoy), 96
in Little Women (Alcott), 33, 101
Austen, Jane, 138, 211, 220
Austenland (Hale), 171
The Awakening (Chopin), 134
Bagna i fiori e aspettami (Ravera), 130
Baldwin, James, 141–42, 151
Bale, Christian, portrayal of Laurie (Theodore Laurence) character, 103, 107
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren, 129
Barnard, A. M. See Alcott, Louisa May, thrillers written under a pseudonym
Bartlett, Alice, 64
BBC, 98, 142
2018 miniseries adaptation of Little Women, 114, 149
Big Read, 205
BBC Radio, 152
Beauty and the Beast, 205
Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott (Alcott and Stern), 120
Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Atkinson), 133
Bennett, Joan, portrayal of Amy March, 89
Benny, Jack, 91
Bensen, Edward White (Archbishop of Canterbury), 185
“Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (Fitzgerald), 147
Beth March (character)
acted by Claire Danes, 102, 107
acted by Eve Plumb, 99
acted by Margaret O’Brien, 93, 94, 95, 96
acted by Parker, Jean, 89
adolescence and, 194–96
anorexia and, 197
death of, 155
illustration of by Hammatt Billings, 57
illustration of by May Alcott, 50, 53
in Little Women (1912 Broadway play, dir. Bonstelle), 83–84
in Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor), 87, 90
in Little Women (Alcott), xiv, 31, 35, 106, 129, 196–98
Lizzie Alcott and, 20, 35–38
in “Miniature Women” or “Small Dames” (1934 spoof), 91
in radio dramatizations, 91
realism and, 144
sentimentality and, 140
“Big Little Book” edition of Little Women, 90
Big Women (Weldon), 132
Billings, Hammatt
illustration of Amy March, 55, 56, 56
illustration of Jo March, 56, 57
illustration of Laurie (Theodore Laurence), 55, 56
illustrations of Beth March, 57
illustrations of Little Women, 54–57
illustrations of Professor Bhaer, 57
Birdsall, Jeanne, 128
Birney, Meredith Baxter, portrayal of Meg March, 99
Blackwood, 193
Bledel, Alexis, 213, 214
Blithedale Romance (Hawthorne), 128, 130
A Bloodsmoor Romance (Oates), 130
Bloom, Amy, 125, 133
Blyton, Enid, 127
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (bell hooks), 123
Bonstelle, Jessie, 82–84
Boston Commonwealth, 10
Boston Post, 52
Brady, William A., 82, 101
Bragg, Melvyn, 177
Brashares, Ann, 133
Brave New World (Huxley), 165
Brazzi, Rossano, portrayal of Professor Bhaer, 95, 97, 111
British Quarterly, 54
Britt, Donna, 109
Brontë, Charlotte, 11, 201
Brontë, Emily, 11
Brook Farm (utopian community), 38
Brooklyn Eagle, 84
Brophy, Brigid, 142, 198
“The Brothers” (Alcott), 11
Brown, John, 8
Buck, Pearl S., 117
Bulgheroni, Marisa, 128
Bunyan, John, 21
Burchill, Julie, 153
Burd, Clara
illustration of Amy March, 74
illustration of Laurie (Theodore Laurence), 74
illustration of Marmee, 74
illustrations of Little Women, 73–74
Bush, Laura, 118
Byatt, A. S., 127, 133
Byrne, Gabriel, 177
portrayal of Professor Bhaer, 103, 106, 111
Cabot, Megan, 210
Callaway, Joy, 133
Camus, Albert, 136
Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, 117
Carroll, Lewis, 186
Castillo, Ana, 133
Cavalcade of the American Novel (Wagenknecht), 116
CBN, 100
CBS, 110
Central Motion Picture Exchange, 118
Channing, William Ellery, 68
Cheever, Susan, 124
Cheney, Ednah, 71
Chesterton, G. K., 116, 138
The Child Wife (Reid), 185
The Chimney Corner, 13
Chopin, Kate, 134
Christian Union, 54
Chung, Connie, xiii
Civil War, 8, 96, 135, 145, 184
Clark, Beverly Lyon, 87, 151
Clauser, Susan, 99
Clemens, Samuel Langhorn. See Twain, Mark
Clewlow, Carol, 127
Clinton, Hilary Rodham, xiii
Cloke, Rene, illustrations of Little Women, 74
Coelho, Paulo, 165
Collins, Suzanne, 207
Collins, Wilkie, 185
The Color Purple (Walker), 220
Come se niente fosse (“As if nothing happened”) (Muratori), 131
Common Core Standards Initiative, 162
Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction (Auerbach), 149
Concord School of Philosophy, 67
Condé Nast, 176
Conversations with Children on the Gospels (Bronson Alcott), 24
Cooke, Rose Terry, 138
Coolidge, Susan, 63
Cooper, Merian, 85, 89
Corinne (Madame de Staël), 200
Corrigan, Maureen, 122
Craven, Peter, 177
Crawford, Philip Charles, 175–76
Cukor, George, 87, 92, 96–97. See also Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor)
The Cursed Child, 220
Daily Mail, 109
Daily Telegraph, 109
The Daisy Chain (Yonge), 47, 63
Danes, Claire, portrayal of Beth March, 102, 107
Danticat, Edwige, 133
The Daughters of Jasper Clay (Fletcher), 132
Daughters of Pharmacist Kim (Pak Kyongni), 130
Daughters of the American Revolution, 214
de Beauvoir, Simone, xiii, 127, 151
Dee, Frances, portrayal of Meg March, 89
de Forest, Marian, 82, 84–85, 116, 145. See also Little Women (1912 Broadway play, dir. Bonstelle)
de Mee Jousset, Albert, illustrations of Little Women, 74–75
Denby, David, 164–65
Depression, 92
de Staël, Mme., 200
Dey, Susan, portrayal of Jo March, 99
The Diary of a Young Girl (Frank), 165
Di Novi, Denise, 101, 114
Disney, 205
Divergent series (Roth), 209
Dix, Dorothea, 10
D. Lothrop’s Sunday School series, 64
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See Carroll, Lewis
“Does Little Women Belittle Women?” (Gaitskill), 151–52
“Does Little Women Belittle Women?” (Harrington), 148–49, 151
Donnelly, Gabrielle, 126, 129
Donoghue, Emma, 126
Dorris, Michael, 178
Douglas, Ann, 119
Downton Abbey (Fellowes), 178
Dunham, Lena, 217
Dunst, Kirsten, portrayal of Amy March, 103, 107
Ebert, Roger, 108–9, 177
Eckel, Sara, 104
Eight Cousins (Alcott), 68
Eiselein, Gregory, 151
Elgin, Jill, illustrations of Little Women, 75
Eliot, George, 63, 201
Elsie Dinsmore (Finley), 50
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 68, 115–16
Alcott family and, 6–7, 24
Bronson Alcott and, 4–5, 21–22
Louisa May Alcott and, 11, 45
Professor Bhaer character and, 45
transcendentalism and, 7, 9
Emily of New Moon (Montgomery), 128
Empress of Japan, xiii
Ephron, Delia, 122
Ephron, Nora, 122
Estes, Angela, 151
“Everybody’s Protest Novel” (Baldwin), 142
“Experience” (Emerson), 7
The Facts of Life (TV series), 132
Faith Gartney’s Girlhood (Whitney), 47
Farris, Christine King, xiii
The Fault in Our Stars (Green), 209
Favorite Stories, 91
Federal Bureau of Education, 117
Fellowes, Julian, 178
The Female Imagination (Spacks), 149
Fern, Fanny, 6
Ferrante, Elena, xii, 127
Fetterley, Judith, 119, 149–50
Fields, James T., 8, 10–11
The Fifth Avenue Artists Society (Callaway), 133
Fine, Marshall, 104
Finley, Martha, 50
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 147
Fitzhugh, Louise, 128
The Flag of Our Union, 12
Flaubert, Gustave, 139
Fletcher, Lucille, 132
Flower Fables (Alcott), 6
Foreign Affairs (Lurie), 133
Forgan, Liz, 152
Foster, Sutton, 113, 143
portrayal of Jo March, 111–12
“The Four Daughters of Dr. Marsch” (French translation of Little Women), 76
“The Four Sisters.” See Little Women (1912 Broadway play, dir. Bonstelle)
Four Sisters, All Queens (Jones), 132
Frank, Anne, 165
Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, 12
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 9, 185
Frank Sanborn school, 43
Frederick, Heather Vogel, 128
Freeman, Elizabeth, 182
Freer, Evelyn Everest, 110
Friedan, Betty, 147–48
Friedell, Deborah, 120, 153
Friends (TV series), 178
Frozen (film), 205
Fruitlands (utopian community), Harvard, MA, 8, 25–27, 41
model for Plumfield in Little Men, 67
Fuji TV, 100
Fuller, Margaret, 65, 158, 182, 201
Gaitskill, Mary, 143, 151
The Galaxy, 139
Gambon, Michael, portrayal of Mr. Laurence, 114
Gannon, Susan, 61
“The Garden Party” (Atkinson), 133
Garland, Judy, 93
Garrison, William Lloyd, 23
Garson, Greer, portrayal of Aunt March, 99
Gay, Carol, 93
gender
Amy March character and, 146, 191–93
children’s books and, 168
Jo March character and, 175, 191–92
Laurie (Theodore Laurence) character and, 175
Meg March character and, 193
Gerwig, Greta, 114
Gibson, Charles Dana, 59
Gibson Girls, 58
Gilbert, Sandra, 119–20
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 133
Gilmore Girls (TV series), 206–7, 211–12, 213, 220
Jo March and, 213–16
A Girl Called Jo (1955), 98–99, 111
Amy March character in, 99
Jo March character and, 99
marriage in, 99
Professor Bhaer in, 99
girls
African American, 190
evolution of, 182
sexualization of, 190
Girls (HBO series), 178, 217–18
cast of, 218
Little Women and, 219
girls, adolescent
Louisa May Alcott and, 185
marriage and, 185–86
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Pipher), 189–91
in Victorian era, 185
Gladstone, Stephen, 185
Glasgow, Ellen, 133
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 45
Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child (von Armin), 45
The Golden Girls (TV series), 132
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 85, 115
Good Wives (British version title, Little Women, 2nd part), 62, 126, 142, 153, 177
Jo March and Professor Bhaer in, 62–63
Gordon, Mary, 125
Gorham, Deborah, 186–87
Gossip Girl novels (von Ziegesar), 210–11, 220
Gourlay, Candy, 123
Gowing, Clara, 31
Graham, Lauren, 213
Graham, Sylvester, 29
Grant, Cary, 90
Grant, Linda, 152
Gray, Effie, 185
Great Depression, 85, 109
Great Performances, 110–11
Green, Elizabeth, 55
Green, John, xiii, 178
Greer, Germaine, 153
Guardian, 170
Guard Your Daughters (Tutton), 132
Gubar, Susan, 120
Hale, Shannon, 171–72
Han, Jenny, 209
Hanauer, Joan, 100
“Happy Women” (Alcott), 203
Harper, Candy, 129
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 52
Harriet the Spy (Fitzhugh), 128
Harrington, Stephanie, 148
Harris Poll, 205
Harry Potter series (Rowling), 128, 168, 206, 206, 208, 213, 220
Hasin, Saravat, 131
Hasta Siempre, Mujercitas (“So long, little women”) (Serrano), 131
Hawke, Maya, portrayal of Jo March, 114
Hawthorne, Julian, 16, 42
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 30, 68, 165
in American literature canon, 115–16
Blithedale Romance, 128, 130
neighbor to Alcotts in Concord, MA, 4, 16
The Scarlet Letter, 165–66
women writers and, 6
Hawthorne, Sophia, 6
Hayden, Carla, xiii
Hayes Code, 90
HBO, 101
Girls, 178, 217–18, 218
Little Women and, 219
Heerman, Victor, 86, 92
Heilbrun, Carolyn, 119, 121, 151, 174
The Heir of Radcliffe (Yonge), 47
Hemingway, Ernest, 121, 140
Henderson, Florence, 98
Henley, Patricia, 125
Hepburn, Katharine
in Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor), 85–88, 86, 88, 89, 92, 93, 107–9, 111, 141, 176, 205
portrayal of Jo March, 87–88, 93, 107–9, 111, 141, 176, 205
radio dramatizations of Little Women and, 91
Hermione Granger (character in Rowling’s Harry Potter series), 128, 206, 206, 208, 220
Hesse, Hermann, 165
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 4
His Little Women (Rossner), 129
Hoffman, Alice, 132
Holiday (travel magazine), 143
Home Monthly, 169
hooks, bell, 123
Horn Book Magazine, 142
“Hospital Sketches” (Alcott), 10–11, 19
Houston Grand Opera, 110
Howard, Danielle, 144
Howells, William Dean, 10
Howland, Jason, 111
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Alvarez), 132
How to Build a Girl (Moran), 126
Huck Finn. See Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
Hull House, 70
“Hungary Bans ‘Little Women’ and Strippers Too,” 118–19
The Hunger Games (Collins), 168, 206–7, 213, 220
The Hunger Games (film), 207
Hussain, Nadiya, 132
Huxley, Aldous, 165
Independent, 109, 153
Indianapolis Star, 90
The Inheritance (Alcott), 110
Jambor, Louis, illustrations of Little Women, 74
James, Caryn, 152, 194
James, Eloisa, 133
James, Henry, 50, 63
adolescence and, 182
Daisy Miller, 194
Louisa May Alcott and, 49, 116
realism and, 137
James, Henry Sr., 10
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 126, 220
Janeway, Elizabeth, 142, 147
Jefferson, Margo, 136
Jo (1964 off-Broadway musical), 111
John Brooke (character)
acted by Eric Stoltz, 105
in Little Women (Alcott), 38, 174
in Little Women (1912 Broadway play play, dir. Bonstelle), 83–84
John Winston Company, 73
Jo March (character), 19, 191
acted by June Allyson, 92–93, 94, 96–97
acted by Katharine Hepburn, 87–88, 93, 108–9, 111
acted by Maya Hawke, 114
acted by Susan Dey, 99
acted by Sutton Foster, 111–12
acted by Winona Ryder, 107–9, 108, 111
adolescence and, 187–88, 194, 198–99
Belle in Beauty and the Beast and, 205
feminism and, 147–48
Frank T. Merrill’s illustrations of, 58
gender and, 121–24, 171–73, 175, 191–92
Gilmore Girls (TV series) and, 213–16
in A Girl Called Jo (1955), 99
in Good Wives (Alcott), 62–63
illustration by Hammatt Billings, 56–57
Jo March (character) (continued)
in Jo’s Boys and How They Turned Out (Alcott), 68, 202
leaves home, 200
lesbian readers and, 182
in Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (Alcott), 65
in Little Women (1912 Broadway play, dir. Bonstelle), 83–84
in Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor), 87, 90
in Little Women (1948 film, dir. LeRoy), 97
in Little Women (1978 TV miniseries, dir. Lowell), 100
in Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong), 104–5, 112
in Little Women (Alcott), xi, xiii–xiv, 14, 35, 42, 47, 106, 129, 155, 158, 184
in Little Women (Opera by Mark Adamo 1998), 111
in The Little Women (Weber), 129
in Little Women: A Musical (2004) (Knee, Howland, and Dickstein), 113
Louisa May Alcott and, 28–31, 34, 41, 43, 92, 151–54, 156–57
marriage and, 44–45, 201
marriage to Professor Bhaer and, 28, 45, 111, 201
popular successors of, 205–8
proposal by Laurie (Theodore Laurence), 15–16, 201
in radio dramatizations of Little Women (Alcott), 91
realism and, 137, 144
Rowling and, 206
women’s rights and, 145–46
women writers and, 76, 121–28, 201
Jones, Jennifer, 92
Jones, Sherry, 132
Jong, Erica, 123–24
Jo’s Boys and How They Turned Out (Alcott), 68–69, 90, 157, 177
Jo March character in, 68, 202
women’s rights and, 104, 146
The Joy Luck Club (Tan), 133
Judy Moody (McDonald), 128
Kaplan, Alice, 136
Katniss Everdeen (character in Collins’s The Hunger Games), 168, 207, 220
Kelley, Emma Dunham, 132
Kennedy, Robert, 142
Kidder, Tracy, 176
Kiek, Miranda, 143
Kincaid, Jamaica, 132
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 142
King, Stephen, 110, 178
Kingsolver, Barbara, 122, 131
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 125
Kipling, Rudyard, 169
Kirkland, Caroline, 138
Klaas, Polly, 189
Klass, Perri, 124, 133, 145
Klauber, Adolph, 84
Knee, Allan, 111–13
Kyongni, Pak, 130
Lab Girl, 180
The Ladies’ Repository, 50
Lahiri, Jhumpa, 125
Lambert, Shaena, 125
Lamott, Anne, 124
Lane, Charles, 25
Lansbury, Angela, portrayal of Aunt March, 114
Lant, Kathleen, 151
LaPlante, Eve, 28
Laurie (Theodore Laurence) (character), 157
acted by Christian Bale, 103, 107
acted by Douglass Montgomery, 89
acted by Peter Lawford, 93, 95
Alfred Whitman and, 9, 41, 43
Clara Burd illustration of, 74
Frank T. Merrill illustrations of, 58
gender and, 175
Hammatt Billings illustration of, 55–56, 55, 56
Jessie Wilcox Smith illustration of, 72
Ladislas Wisniewski (“Laddie”) and, 43
in Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (Alcott), 65–66
in Little Women (1912 Broadway play, dir. Bonstelle), 83–84
in Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor), 88
in Little Women (1949 film, dir. LeRoy), 96–97
in Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong), 105
in Little Women (Alcott), 19, 31, 35–36, 42–44, 110, 157, 171–74
marriage and, 201
models for, 43
proposal rejected by Jo March, 15–16, 201
Lawford, Peter, portrayal of Laurie (Theodore Laurence), 93, 95
Lawrence, Jennifer, 207
Lee, Harper, 165
Le Guin, Ursula K., 121
Leigh, Janet, 97
portrayal of Meg March, 93, 95, 96
L’Engle, Madeleine, 128
Lerman, Leo, 176
LeRoy, Mervyn, 97, 103. See also Little Women (1949 film, dir. LeRoy)
Leslie, Frank, 13
Lessing, Doris, 127
“Let Books Be Books” campaign (U.K.), 170
Library of America, 120, 153
Library of Congress, 75, 118
Liddell, Alice, 186
Lily Series, 62
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin, 133
Limited Editions Club, 75
Lindsay, Karen, 148
Little, Brown, 211
“Orchard House” editions, 90
Little House on the Prairie (Wilder), 128
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (Alcott), 65, 67–68, 90, 156, 176
Jo March character in, 65
Meg March character in, 66
Mr. Laurence character in, 65–66
Mr. March character in, 67
Professor Bhaer character in, 67
Little Things, 69
Little Wives (British version title, Little Women, 2nd part), 62
Little Women (1912 Broadway play, dir. Bonstelle)
Amy March character in, 83–84
Beth March in, 83–84
John Brooke character in, 83–84
Jo March character in, 83–84
Laurie (Theodore Laurence) character in, 83–84
Little Women and, 82–84
Meg March character in, 83–84
New York Times review of, 84
script by Marian de Forest, 82–83, 83
Little Women (1918 silent film, dir. Brady), 84–85
Little Women (1930s operetta) (O’Hara), 110
Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor), 85–90, 109, 117, 141–42, 176
Beth March character in, 87
in Europe, 90
Hummel family in, 86
Joan Bennet in as Amy, 89
Jo fences with Laurie, 88
Jo March character in, 87
Katharine Hepburn in as Jo, 89
Little Women (1949 film) and, 141
Marmee character in, 85
Professor Bhaer character in, 88
publicity posters for, 86
Little Women (1949 film, dir. LeRoy), 92–98, 94, 95, 96, 141
Aunt March character in, 96–97
Jo March character in, 97
Laurie (Theodore Laurence) character in, 96–97
March sisters in, 96
Marmee character in, 96
Meg March character in, 97
New York Times review of, 97
posters for, 95
publicity photo for, 94
shopping scene, 96
Little Women (1978 TV miniseries, dir. Lowell), 99–100
feminism and, 99
Jo March character in, 100
Meg March character in, 100
Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong), 101–9, 112, 151, 189, 215–16
Alcott’s life and, 104
Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong) (continued)
Jo March character in, 104–5, 108, 112
Laurie (Theodore Laurence), 105
March sisters in, 103, 106–7
Marmee character in, 106
Mr. March character in, 105
Professor Bhaer character in, 104–5, 112
publicity photo, 102
Robin Swicord screenwriter, 101
Wynona Ryder and, 108
Little Women (1998 opera by Mark Adamo), 110–13
Jo March marriage to Professor Bhaer in, 111
Little Women (Alcott), 52, 90, 95, 106, 110, 166, 169, 177, 203, 220
1958 musical version of, 98
1976 ballet version, 98
adaptations as a musical, 98, 111–13, 143
adaptations in opera, 110–13
adolescence and, 181, 183–84, 186–88, 194–96
alterations to the text of, 60–61
Americanisms in, 49
American literary canon and, 114–16, 161
Amy March character in, 14–15, 30, 156, 181, 194
anime versions, 100
Aunt March character in, 33, 101
autobiographical elements of, 29–46
Beth March character in, xiv, 31, 35, 106, 129, 155, 196–98
boys as readers of, 161–79
British literary adaptations of, 114
British versions of, 62
Christian authorities and, 50
Christmas and, 144
Civil War setting, 92, 101
comic references to, 178
controversies and, 135–66
copyright and, 71–72
cultural influence of, 53, 115–34
dissemination overseas, 118
as female Bildungsroman, 182–83
female protagonists and, 170
female readers and, 121–24
feminism and, 147–48, 149–50
fiction for girls and, 180–203, 204–23
film adaptations of, 85–114
foreign language versions of, 76, 100, 130–33
four-sister theme, 132
gay men and, 176
gender in, 171–73, 176, 191–92
Gilmore Girls and, 212–16
Girls and, 217–19
Great Depression and, 85
Hummel family characters in, 35
illustration of Amy March in Europe, 55–56
illustration of Laurie (Theodore Laurence) in Europe, 55–56
illustrations by Hammatt Billings, 54
illustrations by May Alcott, 51
illustrations of, 51–60, 71–75
imitators of, 63
John Brooke character in, 174
Jo March character in, 47, 155, 171–73, 184
as Künstleroman, 200
Laurie (Theodore Laurence) character in, 15–16, 19, 31, 35–36, 42–44, 85–90, 110, 171–74
in literary culture, 133–34
literary influence of, 115–34
male characters in, 174–75
male readers and, 169, 175
March family, 125
March sisters, xii, 34
Marmee character in, 49, 158
marriage and, 44–45, 148, 184, 193, 203, 219
Meg March character in, xii–xiv, 14, 30–31, 158, 184
Mr. Laurence character in, 33, 174
Mr. March character in, 66, 76, 174
new editions of, 120
new novels compared to, 132
The Old Stone House (Woolson) and, 64
original version, 62
in other novels, 133–34
the phenomenon of, 46–80
popular in various countries (listed), 76
popularity of, 70
popular successors of Jo March, 205–8
printed in installments, 52
publication history of, 46–77
publication in Britain, 49–52, 57, 62
radio dramatizations of, 90–92
reading of, 135–60, 171–80
realism, 137–40, 143–44
reception of, 44–49
religious press and, 54
sentimentality and, 138–42
sequels to, 43, 64–69
silent films of, 84
sisterhood, 219
spinoffs and retellings of, 128–29
stage adaptations of, 81–84
on stage in London, 92
on stage in New York on Broadway, 81–85, 92, 111–13, 139, 143
style of, 49
suffrage and women’s rights, 146
teaching, 133, 161–63
television versions of, 98–99
transcendentalism and, 54
unauthorized editions of, 73
women and, 193
writing of, 3–18
young adult (YA) literature and, 183
young Victorian womanhood and, 188
The Little Women (Weber), 129
Little Women, Players’ Edition (1912 Broadway play, dir. Bonstelle), 82–84, 116
Little Women: A Musical (2004 Broadway musical, dir. Shulman), 111–13, 143
portrayal of Jo March in, 113
Little Women and Good Wives (sold separately in UK), 203
Little Women and Me (Baratz-Logsted), 129
The Little Women Club (Taggart), 70
Little Women clubs, 70
Little Women in India (Nardin), 131
The Little Women Letters (Donnelly), 129–30
Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (Alcott), 12, 15–16
Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, Part Second, published in England as Little Women Wedded, 52, 62
Little Women trilogy. See specific volumes, 68
Little Women Trilogy (including Little Men and Jo’s Boys), 153
Little Women Wedded (British version title, Little Women, 2nd part), 62
“Little Women: Who’s in Love with Louisa May Alcott? I Am.” (Lerman), 176
The Living Is Easy (West), 133
Livingston, Marie, 91
Lonette, Reisie, illustrations of Little Women, 75
A Long Fatal Love Chase (Alcott), 110, 185
Loring, A. K., 11
Los Angeles Times, 98
The Louisa Alcott Reader: A Supplemental Reader for the Fourth Year of School, 117
“Louisa May Alcott: The Author of Little Women as Feminist” (Lindsay), 148
Louise S. McGehee School, New Orleans, 208–9
“Love and Self Love” (Alcott), 185
“A Love Letter to Louisa May Alcott” (James), 133
Low, Sampson, 49, 62
Lowell, Amy, 125
Lowry, Lois, 129
Lucky Us (Bloom), 133
Lucy (Kincaid), 132
Lukas, Paul, portrayal of Professor Bhaer, 88, 111
Lukens, Maggie, 69
Lukens sisters (Brinton, Pennsylvania), 69
Lurie, Alison, 133
Lux Radio Theater, 91
Madame Alexander’s Little Women Dolls, 74, 90–91
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 139
Maddox, Brenda, 152
Mansfield, Katherine, 133
Mantel, Hilary, 121
March (Brooks), 130
March, Ann. See Woolson, Constance Fenimore
March sisters (characters)
in Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor), 90
in Little Women (1949 film, dir. LeRoy), 96
in Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong), 103, 106–7
in Little Women (Alcott), xii, 34
realism and, 138, 143–44
Marmee (character)
Abigail May Alcott and, 23, 27–28, 45
acted by Emily Watson, 114
acted by Lea Thompson, 113
acted by Maureen McGovern, 112
acted by Susan Sarandon, 102, 103–5
illustration of by Clara Burd, 74
illustration of by Frank T. Merrill, 58, 59
in Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor), 85
in Little Women (1949 film, dir. LeRoy), 96
in Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong), 106
in Little Women (Alcott), xii, 49, 158
realism and, 138
marriage
child marriage, 185–86
companionate, 201, 219
Jo March character and, 28, 111, 201
in Little Women (1998 opera by Mark Adamo), 111
Meg March character and, 192
The Marrying Game (Saunders), 132
Martin, Jane Roland, 179
Martin, Judith (Miss Manners), 123
Maslin, Janet, 109
Mason, Sarah, 86, 92
“A Masterpiece, and Dreadful” (Brophy), 142
Masterpiece Theater, 99, 114
Mathis, Samantha, portrayal of Amy March, 107
Matilda (Roald Dahl), 208
Matteson, John, 26, 177
Matthiessen, F. O., 116
May, Samuel Joseph, 23
Mayer, Louis B., 92
Mazur, Gail, 122–23, 202
McCullers, Carson, 125
McDonald, Megan, 128
McGovern, Maureen, portrayal of Marmee, 112–13
McGrath, Charles, 176
McMillan, Terry, 133
Megda (Kelley), 132
Meg March (character)
acted by Frances Dee, 89
acted by Janet Leigh, 93, 95, 96
acted by Meredith Baxter Birney, 99
acted by Trini Alvarado, 103, 107
adolescence and, 187
Anna (“Nan”) Alcott and, 20, 38–40, 44
gender and, 193
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (Alcott), 66
in Little Women (1912 Broadway play, dir. Bonstelle), 83–84
in Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor), 90
in Little Women (1949 film, dir. LeRoy), 97
in Little Women (1978 TV miniseries, dir. Lowell), 100
in Little Women (Alcott), xii, xiv, 14, 30–31, 158, 184
in The Little Women (Weber), 129
marriage and, 192
Melville, Herman, 116
Merrill, Frank T.
illustration of Marmee, 58, 59
illustration of Professor Bhaer, 58
illustrations of Jo March, 58–60, 60
illustrations of Laurie (Theodore Laurence), 58
illustrations of Little Women, 58–60
Merry’s Museum, 13–14, 64
Mesle, Sarah, 193
The Metamorphosis (Kafka), 162
Meyer, Stephanie, 124
Miller, Laura, 143
“Miniature Women” or “Small Dames” (1934 spoof of Little Women), Beth March in, 91
“A Modern Cinderella” (Alcott), 6–8
A Modern Mephistopheles (Alcott), 68
Montgomery, Douglass, portrayal of Laurie, 89
Montgomery, L. M., 128
Moo (Smiley), 132
Moods (Alcott), 11–12, 34, 45, 68
Moran, Caitlan, xiii, 126
Mosse, Kate, 126
“The Most Beloved American Writer,” 74
The Mother-Daughter Book Club (Frederick), 128
Movie International, 100
Mowatt, Anna Cora, 185
Mr. Laurence (character), 33, 174
Mr. March (character)
Alcott, Louisa May and, 23–24
Bronson Alcott and, 27
in French translations, 76
illustration of by May Alcott, 50, 53
in Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (Alcott), 67
in Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong), 105
in Little Women (Alcott), 34, 66, 174
Much Ado About You (Eloisa James), 133
Mujercitas (Spanish TV series based on Little Women), 100
Muratori, Letizia, 131
Murphy, Ann B., 196
My Brilliant Friend (Ferrante), xii
Nachman, Gerald, 148–49
Nardin, Jane, 131
The Nation, 52, 54, 141
National Council of Teachers of English, 117
National Education Association, 161
National Endowment for the Arts Big Read program, 179
NBC, 99
Neapolitan Quartet (Ferrante), 127
Negrón, Luis, 176
Netflix, 212, 215
New England Anti-Slavery Society, 23
The New Republic, 120, 147
New Testament, 54
New York Daily News, 113
The New Yorker, 111, 165, 169
New York Public Library, 119
New York Times, 70, 84, 97
New York Times Book Review, 142, 147
New-York Tribune, 82
Nguyen, Bich Minh, 123
Nice Wives (British version title, Little Women, 2nd part), 62
Niles, Thomas, 3–4, 13–14, 16, 50–52, 56, 58, 61, 168
1984 (Orwell), 165
Nineteenth Amendment, 146
Nippon Animation, 100
“No Boys Allowed: School Visits as a Woman Writer” (Hale), 171
Oates, Joyce Carol, 130
O’Brien, Margaret, 93–94
Little Women (Alcott) and, 101
portrayal of Beth March, 93, 94, 95, 96
Observer, 152
O’Faolain, Sean, 143, 177
O’Hara, Geoffrey, 110
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Alcott), 60–61, 64, 203
The Old Stone House (Woolson), 63–64
Orwell, George, 165, 177
Other Women’s Children (Klass), 133, 145
“Our Little Woman” (Phelps), 63
“Our Little Women Problem” (Schiff), 153
Our Young Folks, 63
Oyeyemi, Helen, 127
Ozick, Cynthia, xiii, 123, 127
Paglia, Camille, 121
“A Pair of Eyes” (Alcott), 9
Pankhurst, Emma, 145
Paretsky, Sara, 125
Parker, Jean, portrayal of Beth March, 89
Pascal, Amy, 101, 106, 114
“Pauline’s Passion and Punishment” (Alcott), 9
PBS, 110, 114
Peabody, Elizabeth, 8, 67
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (Birdsall), 128, 176
Petry, Ann, 123
Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 128
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 63
Phelps, William Lyon, 169
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 21, 54
Pipher, Mary, 189–90, 191
Pitz, Henry C., illustrations of Little Women, 75, 75
Plath, Sylvia, 165
Playhouse on Broadway, 82
“Please, Do Not Teach Little Women” (blog post), 163
Plumb, Eve, portrayal of Beth March, 99
Poe, Edgar Allen, 185
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver), 131
Porridge (BBC sitcom), 178
Pratt, John, 38–39, 64
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 126
Princess Academy series (Hale), 171
Princess Diary series (Cabot), 210
The Prodigal Father (Saunders), 132
Professor Bhaer (character), 157, 200
acted by Chen-Ye Yuan, 111
acted by Gabriel Byrne, 103, 106, 111
acted by Mark Stanley, 114
acted by Paul Lukas, 88, 111
acted by Rossano Brazzi, 95, 97, 111
acted by William Shatner, 99–100, 111
Frank T. Merrill illustrations of, 58
in A Girl Called Jo (1955), 99
in Good Wives, 62–63
Hammatt Billings’ illustration of, 57
Henry David Thoreau and, 45
Jessie Wilcox Smith illustration of, 73
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (Alcott), 67
in Little Women (1933 film, dir. Cukor), 88
in Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong), 104–5, 112
in Little Women (Alcott), 103, 106, 157–58, 200–201
in Little Women (opera by Mark Adamo 1998), 111
marriage to Jo March, 28, 45, 111, 201
in radio dramatizations of Little Women (Alcott), 91
Ralph Waldo Emerson and, 45
realism and, 137–38, 140
sentimentality and, 140–41
Pulham, Patricia, 126
Putnam’s, 54
Quindlen, Anna, 124–25, 143, 191
Random House, 109
Ravera, Lidia, 130–31
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Wiggins), 128
Redpath, James, 11
Reid, Captain Mayne, 185
Reisen, Harriet, 45
Rennison, Louise, 124, 210
Report of the APA’s Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (2007), 190–91
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Pipher), 189–91
Rise of the Rocket Girls, 180
“The Rival Painters” (Alcott), 6, 34
“The Rival Prima Donnas” (Alcott), 6
RKO Pictures, 85, 87, 90–91, 95, 141
Roberts, Michele, 152
Roberts Brothers, 3, 16, 57–58, 61–62, 64, 71
“The Robin” (Alcott), 5
Rockwell, Jon, 111
Rockwell, Norman, 74
Roosevelt, Theodore, 169
Rose in Bloom (Alcott), 68
Rosenfeld, Lucinda, 121
Ross, Alex, 111
Rossner, Judith, 129
Rostenberg, Leona, 120
Roth, Veronica, 209
Rowling, J. K., xiii, 126, 128, 168, 206, 220
Rule of Three (McDonald), 128
Ruskin, John, 185
Russ, Lavinia, 140, 142–43
Ryder, Winona, 189
in Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong), 101–2, 102
Little Women (Alcott) and, 101, 106–7
portrayal of Jo March character, 107–9, 108, 111
Sanchez, Sonja, 122
Sarandon, Susan
in Little Women (1994 film, dir. Armstrong), 106
portrayal of Marmee character, 102, 103–5
Saturday Evening Gazette, 13
Saunders, Kate, 132
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), 165–66
Scenes from Little Women (1920 opera by Freer), 110
Schiff, Stacy, 124, 153–54
The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families (Martin), 179
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, 122
Second Battle of Bull Run and Antietam, 9
The Secret Garden, 176
The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters (Hussain), 132
Se le dico perdo l’America (“If I say I miss America”) (Ravera), 131
“Self-Reliance,” Emerson, 4
Selznick, David O., 85, 92
sentimentality, 138–42
Serrano, Marcela, 131
Sex and the City, 132, 217
Shafak, Elif Bilgin, 128
Shakespeare, 63
Shatner, William
portrayal of Professor Bhaer, 99–100, 111
Shealy, Daniel, 177
She Done Him Wrong (film), 90
The Sheltered Life (Glasgow), 133
Sherman-Palladino, Amy, 213
Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America (American Association of University Women), 189
Showalter, Elaine, 119, 121, 124, 153–54
Shulman, Susan H., 112
Sicherman, Barbara, 70, 154
Siddhartha (Hesse), 165
Simon, Francesca, 127
The Simpsons, 178
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Brashares), 133, 210
Sisters (Steel), 133
The Sisters Club (McDonald), 128
“The Sisters’ Trial” (Alcott), 38–39
Sister Swing (Lim), 133
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 68
Smale, Holly, 126
Smiley, Jane, 124, 132
Smith, Betty, 128
Smith, Jessie Wilcox
illustration of Laurie proposing to Jo, 72
illustration of Professor Bhaer and Jo, 73
illustrations of Little Women, 71
Smith, Patti, xiii
Smith, Zadie, 127
So Far from God (Castillo), 133
Sohoni, Neera Kuckreja Sohoni, 128
“Soldier’s Home” (Hemingway), 140
“Somewhere Under the Rainbow Lies Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women,’” 97
Sontag, Susan, 125
Spacks, Patricia Meyer, 119, 149
The Spectator, 49
Spofford, Harriet Prescott, 71
Springfield Republican, 68
Stanley, Mark, portrayal of Professor Bhaer, 114
Star-Ledger (Newark), 113
Stearns, Frank Preston, 52
Steel, Danielle, 133
Steinem, Gloria, xiii, 125, 145, 153–54
Stern, Madeleine, 71, 120
Stevens, Justice John Paul, 177
Stoddard, Elizabeth, 5
Stoltz, Eric, portrayal of John Brooke, 105
Stories for the Classroom, 116
A Story of Four Little Women (British version title, Little Women, 2nd part), 62
“A Story of Young Grass” (Japanese translation of Little Women), 76
The Story Sisters (Hoffman), 132
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 54
The Stranger (Camus), 136
The Strawberry Sisters (Harper), 129
“Study Finds Huge Gender Imbalance in Children’s Literature,” 170
“Subversive Miss Alcott” (Vincent), 147
“Success” (Alcott), 12
Sullivan, Michael, 166
The Summer I Turned Pretty, 209–10
Susina, Jan, 174–75, 177
Sweeney, Kathleen, 190
Swicord, Robin, 101, 104–7, 112
Sylvester, Natalia, 124
Taggart, Marion Ames, 70
Tales of Little Women (anime adaptation), 100–101
Talkin’ Broadway, 113
Tan, Amy, 133
Taylor, Elizabeth, portrayal of Amy March, 93–94, 94, 95, 95, 97
Taylor, Sidney, 132–33
Technicolor, 97, 103
Tell It Again, 91
Temple, Shirley, 91
Temple School, 41, 65
Bronson Alcott and, 24, 67, 202
as model for Plumfield in Little Men, 67
Terry, Ellen, 185
“That Girl” (TV series), 149
Theater Guild on the Air, 91–92
The Inheritance (Alcott), 110
“The Sisters’ Trial” (Alcott), 38–39
“This Is Your Life . . . Louisa May Alcott” (O’Faolain), 143
This Wide Night (Hasin), 131, 132
Thomas, Marlo, 149
Thomas, M. Carey, 70
Thompson, Lea, portrayal of Marmee, 113
Thoreau, Henry David
Alcott family and, 68
American literature courses and, 116
Louisa May Alcott and, 11
Professor Bhaer character and, 45
transcendentalism and, 6–7
Walden Pond and, 22
“Thoreau’s Flute” (poem) (Alcott), 11
Ticknor, Howard, 11
Ticknor and Fields, 11
Toei Studio, 100
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 165, 166
Tommasini, Anthony, 111
“Transcendental Wild Oats” (Alcott), 26
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith), 128
Tudor, Tasha, illustrations of Little Women, 75
Tutton, Diane, 132
Twain, Mark, 137
Twilight, 209
Tyler, Anne, 125
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 54, 115, 137, 141–42
“Under Mother’s Wings” (Dutch translation of Little Women), 76
Union Hotel Hospital, Washington, D.C., 10
United Press, 91
United States Review, 5
Untwine (Danticat), 133
UPI, 100
U.S. Information Agency’s Franklin Book Program, 118
van Abbé, Salomon, illustrations of Little Women, 74
Vanderbilt, Gloria, xiii
van Stockum, Hilda, illustrations of Little Women, 74
Vassar College, 70
Victor, David Lowell, 99
Victorian era, 184–87
Vincent, Elizabeth, 147
Vogue, 151
von Armin, Bettina, 45
von Ziegesar, Cecily, 210–11
Wagenknecht, Edward, 116
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan), 133
Walden (Thoreau), 133
Walden Pond, 22
Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 62
Wasserman, Robin, 180
Watson, Emily, portrayal of Marmee, 114
Webster, Jean, 128
Weiner, Jennifer, 133
Weisgall, Deborah, 115, 124
Weld, Anna, 12
Weld, George, 12
West, Dorothy, 133
West, Mae, 90
What Katy Did (Coolidge), 63
What Kids Are Reading survey, 162
Wheeler, Frank, 42
“A Whisper in the Dark” (Alcott), 9, 185
Whitman, Walt, 116
Whitman Publishing, 90
Whitney, Adeline D. R., 47, 49
“Why Johnny Won’t Read” (Sullivan), 166
Wiggins, Kate Douglas, 128
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 128
Wilhelm Meister (Goethe), 45
Willis, Frederick L., 43
Willis, Nathaniel, 6
Wilson, Jacqueline, 127
Wisniewski, Ladislas (“Laddie”), 12–13, 42–43
Laurie (Theodore Laurence) character and, 43
Wolf, Naomi, 211
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 182
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Fuller), 158, 182
Woman’s Home Companion, 74, 82
Woman’s Journal, 145–46
Women (Atik), 217
Women: A Journal of Liberation, 148
Women’s Liberation Front, 148
women’s rights, Jo March character and, 145–46
women writers, Jo March character and, 76, 126–28, 201
Woodward, Joanne, 98
Woollcott, Alexander, 169
Woolsey, Sarah. See Coolidge, Susan
Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 63
Woolverton, Linda, 205
Work (Alcott), 12, 33, 38, 68
World Book Day poll, 208
World Publishing Company, 74
A Wrinkle in Time (L’Engle), 128
Year in the Life, 215–16
“The Yellow Wallpaper” (Gilman), 133
Yonge, Charlotte, 47, 49
Young, Robert, portrayal of Mr. Laurence, 99
Youth’s Companion, 13
Yuan, Chen-Ye, portrayal of Professor Bhaer, 111