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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 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 attend 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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CFP for American Literature Association Conference

Call for Papers:  The Louisa May Alcott Society is sponsoring two panels at the  American Literature Association Conference  May 20-23, 2026  Chicago, Illinois.   I. Alcott and Europe  While the work of Louisa May Alcott makes an important contribution to nineteenth-century conversations about nation-building, democracy, and citizenship in America, Alcott also represents varied and complex ideas about international identities and perspectives. For this panel, we invite papers that consider Alcott and Alcott studies in a transatlantic rather than purely national context. The focus of this panel is Alcott and Europe, conceived broadly. In Shawl-Straps, the lightly fictionalized account of her European travels with May Alcott and Alice Barton, Louisa May Alcott offered an enticing invitation to would-be travelers, encouraging them to try the Grand Tour for themselves: “Bring home empty trunks if you will, but heads full of new and larger ideas, hearts r...
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