Louisa May Alcott Society

On Monday, May 24, 2021, the Louisa May Alcott Society will be hosting a pair of scholarly panels via Zoom: Alcott and Adaptation Mon, May 24, 2:00-3:20 pm (Eastern) https://tinyurl.com/AlcottALA1      Teaching Alcott: Alcott in Proximity to Other American Realists, Regionalists, Romantics  Mon, May 24, 3:40-5:00 pm (Eastern) https://tinyurl.com/AlcottALA2      These two sessions will be recorded and included in the digital portion of the  2021 American Literature Association Conference , scheduled for July 7-11.    At these sessions, you’ll have a chance to hear short presentations from a range of Alcott scholars and then to ask questions about and join the conversations about these presentations. It will be a unique opportunity to learn more about Alcott from some impressive scholars, just as I know our presenters would value your questions, feedback, and responses to their work.   ***   The Program   Alcott and Adaptati...

Lorraine Tosiello and Susan Bailey are seeking help on a project to uncover and preserve readers' responses to Little Women . It is called "Alcott's Hidden Critics: The Secret Reviews of Little Women ." The first wave of reader response was lost since Louisa May Alcott destroyed her fan mail. In an effort to preserve the ongoing legacy of reader responses, they want to send out a call for fans to examine their own letters and journals, school projects, fan fiction, etc., as well as from family and friends, for mentions of Little Women . We'd like to archive the findings on our LMA Society's website, so that anyone can access it for future research or just for fun. Additionally, this project's more formal research component would search diaries of young women for mention of Little Women that are archived in historical societies and universities. They seek your help on three fronts: to join the effort to ransack attics and basements for documents with menti...

Orchard House has now posted this year’s Summer Conversational Series (SCS) schedule and registration on its website . You will notice on the schedule that they are still trying to finalize the Sunday panel session speakers and topic, but everything else is there.  Please consider joining them this year, and please promote the Summer Conversational Series 2021 to family, friends, and colleagues! In the spirit of Bronson Alcott’s original plan for SCS when he founded it in 1879, they are sure to stimulate lively conversations and camaraderie among all participants.