“To the Lukens Sisters,” 2 October [1874], Selected Letters, p. 185.

62 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 118.

63 A. Bronson Alcott, Sonnets and Canzonets, p. 73.

64 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 124n.

65 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience,” in Essays and Lectures, p. 473.

66 Louisa May Alcott, Moods, in The Portable Louisa May Alcott, ed. Elizabeth Lennox Keyser, pp. 168, 166.

67 Ibid., p. 159.

68 Ibid., p. 328.

69 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, pp. 99, 103.

70 Ibid., p 213.

71 A. K. Loring, “To Louisa May Alcott,” n.d., MSS 6255, Papers of Louisa May Alcott, University of Virginia Special Collections.

72 Louisa May Alcott, Moods, p. 157.

73 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 133.

74 Ibid., p. 144.

75 Ibid., p. 145.

76 Louisa May Alcott, “My Boys,” in Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag: My Boys, Etc., pp. 27–28.

77 Ibid., p. 34.

78 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 158.

79 Ibid., p. 162.

80 Louisa May Alcott, “Happy Women,” in L. M. Alcott: Signature of Reform, ed. Madeleine B. Stern, pp. 146–49.

81 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, pp. 165–66.

82 Louisa May Alcott, “To Thomas Niles,” mid July [?] 1868, Selected Letters, p. 117.

83 Thomas Niles, “To Louisa May Alcott,” 25 July 1868, in Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. Anne K.