Word: alcotts
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...students disapprove that only one aspect of ourselves, our classwork, is presented to our professors and section leaders. They usually do not get to know us as people. Would we feel differently about reading Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, a classic children's story, if we had previously read her other works published under a pseudonym? These thrillers were deemed too sensational to be published then: A Long, Fatal Love Chase, a story about obsessive love, is only now being published. But Alcott's other works should make no difference to us. Little Women could never be called sensationalist...
...fact, one of the owners of the manuscript rights is Ziegler Professor of Business Administration John W. Pratt, the great-great grandson of Louisa's father Branson Alcott. Louisa died childless...
...literary heirs of Louisa May Alcott presented and sold a significant collection of Alcott papers to the Houghton library during its 50th anniversary in 1992," Wendorf said. "Our Alcott manuscripts are on deposit in the library including The Inheritance [and] have been catalogued and fully accessible to the public since they arrived...
Wendorf said he is not sure what had recently garnered the manuscript such attention but guessed it was the recent publicity Alcott's works have received, due in part to the adaptation of Little Women to film...
...page The Inheritance was written in Boston in 1849 when Alcott was just 17 years old and was given to the library by her family in July...