Porter,” 4[?] March 1888, Selected Letters, p. 337.

15 A. Bronson Alcott, “To Louisa May Alcott,” 29 November 1842, The Letters of A. Bronson Alcott, p. 93.

16 Abigail May Alcott, “To Samuel J. May,” 29 February 1848, quoted in Eve LaPlante, Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother, p. 140.

17 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 55.

18 A. Bronson Alcott, “To Junius S. Alcott,” 30 June 1842, Letters, p. 74.

19 A. Bronson Alcott, “To Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott,” 16 August 1842, Letters, p. 90.

20 John Matteson, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, p. 141.

21 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 47.

22 Ibid., p. 59.

23 Ibid., p. 55.

24 Ibid., p. 59.

25 A. Bronson Alcott, The Journals of Bronson Alcott, p. 173.

26 A. Bronson Alcott, “To Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth, and May Alcott,” 15 July 1842, Letters, p. 83.

27 Louisa May Alcott and Anna Alcott Pratt, Comic Tragedies, Written by “Jo” and “Meg” and Acted by the “Little Women,” p. 7.

28 Anna Alcott Pratt, “A Letter from Miss Alcott’s Sister about ‘Little Women,’ ” in Alcott in Her Own Time, p. 18.

29 Edward W. Emerson, “When Louisa Alcott Was a Girl,” in Alcott in Her Own Time, p. 95.

30 A. Bronson Alcott, “To Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth, and May Alcott,” 15 July 1842, Letters, p. 83.

31 Ibid.

32 Ibid.

33 Louisa May Alcott, “To Anna Alcott Pratt,” [after 17 December 1860], Selected Letters, p.