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Welcome to the Louisa May Alcott Society!

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Formed in 2005, the Louisa May Alcott Society offers the opportunity for readers, fans, and scholars to study and appreciate the life and works of Louisa May Alcott. An American Literature Association-allied organization, the Alcott Society sponsors panels and other activities at its annual meetings. To join or to make a donation, just click  here . You can also follow us on Twitter at @AlcottSociety .  For more information about the Society, please contact the Society President at louisamayalcottsociety@gmail.com . For information about other Alcott-focused entities, including Orchard House, the Concord museum and home of the Alcotts, the Facebook group dedicated to Alcott, and other resources, please visit our page of Alcott Studies Links . 
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2026 Award Announcements

The Louisa May Alcott Society is delighted to announce the recipients of its 2026 awards for scholarly excellence in Alcott studies. The following awards were announced at our business meeting at the American Literature Association Conference in Chicago last week. Beverly Lyon Clark Article Prize The Beverly Lyon Clark Article Prize Committee is pleased to announce that the 2026 prize goes to Ariel Little for “‘Health Should Come First’: Alcott’s Model of Hygienic Female Development in Eight Cousins.” Little’s essay applies the nineteenth-century cultural concept of “hygiene” to offer an insightful reading of Rose’s character development, connecting her embrace of hygienic principles to her growing agency as a woman. Drawing on recent scholarship alongside original texts by nineteenth-century women doctors and health care professionals, Little persuasively demonstrates that for Alcott, good health was not simply an end in itself but a means by which women could achieve greater indepen...
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2026 Sarah Elbert Travel Grants

  The Alcott Society is offering up to three travel grants of $400 each to support students and non-tenure-track members of the Society to present on Alcott at an academic conference in the 2026 calendar year.  These grants, supported financially by the Alcott Society and its members and donors, are meant to encourage Alcott scholarship and to honor the career and memory of Sarah Elbert , a literary historian whose important research charted exciting new paths for Alcott scholarship. Applying is easy. Please just send the abstract for your paper, information about its acceptance and conference venue, and a one-page vita to Marlowe Daly-Galeano at hmdalygaleano@lcsc.edu. We encourage students and NTT members of the Society to see these travel grants as a possible source for financial support for sharing their Alcott research with a larger audience.
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If you missed the Celebrating Alcott event...

 Thanks to all who joined our Celebrating Alcott event on November 30. If you were not able to attend, the link to the recording will be available for the next few months. https://lcsc.zoom.us/rec/share/StuUlQ3rA5QZsp_ClL_wFRXZPQtmcuoHdI24LbQHsn6v6xHko3MFPTp0UfAvkn0x.fSSbZ1rRo8Y842Fs
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