Louisa May Alcott Society

The Alcott Society promotes the study and public awareness of the life and writings of Louisa May Alcott.

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Congratulations to Dr. Azelina Flint (@Dont_forget_May) on winning the Alcott Society's 2024 Clark Article Prize for her essay in Horror Studies titled "A Marble Woman: Is the Omen Good or Ill?"

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Join the Alcott Society at the ALA Conference on Fri, May 24th, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago. Our sessions are scheduled for 8:30am, 10:00am, and 2:30pm. We will have a business meeting at 5:30. Details in the program: https://t.co/BrLY0qL4fj Hope to see you there!

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"Boston scholar finds new Louisa May Alcott writings under pseudonym" https://t.co/m8Ake0MxLC

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And we have travel grants for students and non-tenure scholars to present research on Alcott. If you're interested, you can find the details on our website: https://t.co/UMwhOIHt4k

[Louisa May Alcott Society @AlcottSociety]

We are organizing three amazing panels on Alcott for the upcoming @AmLit_ALA conference in Chicago (May 23-26). If you're doing work on Alcott and gender or Whitman or democracy or performance or drama or teaching, we want to hear from you. Details here: https://t.co/FhDqTnOf0X

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While you're there, check out Ilana Larkin's new article on Intimations of Infanticide in Little Women!

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What an exciting week in Alcott! See the article by @maxchappy on several new Alcott pieces and a recently discovered Alcott pseudonym, E.H. Gould. The article & 2 stories are in the latest issue of J19: https://t.co/dAMOiO4v5F Very cool! @J19Americanists @gregeiselein

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Great authors. Also: Kathleen Alcalá (Spirits of the Ordinary), María Amparo Escandón (Esperanza's Box of Saints), Christina Garcia (Dreaming in Cuban)?

[LuElla D'Amico @LuElla_DAmico]

Planning a course on Catholic women writers for this spring. Including Toni Morrison, Viola Canales, Julia Alvarez, St. Teresa of Ávila, Sigrid Undset, and @MrsKatyCarl. Who would you include?

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Share your Alcott research with us! The Alcott Society is hosting 3 awesome panels at the May 2024 American Lit Assoc Conference: Proposal deadline: Jan 15. Details here: https://t.co/FhDqTnOf0X

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Join us next month for our annual Louisa May Alcott birthday event on Sun, Nov 26 at 3pm ET at https://t.co/8zB2CVMCnX. Our special guest this year is @peytonology. More info on our website: https://t.co/KvuoFtX4pk

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The Alcott Society is delighted to announce that the winner of the inaugural Beverly Lyon Clark Article Prize is Sandy Petrulionis for “‘Faithfulness Itself’: The Imperative for Hannah Mullet in Little Women” from Little Women at 150. Congratulations! https://t.co/NalxHTri70

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Congratulations to our 2023 Sarah Elbert Travel Grant Winners, Jill Fuller and Lauren Hehmeyer! They'll be presenting at @ThoreauSociety Gathering in July. https://t.co/46VgF3bILG

[Sarah Chinn @sarahechinn]

Waiting with bated breath for the next installment of the @C19Americanists bracket vote.

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Little Women is in the final four. Today is the day to vote it into the final matchup against Moby-Dick. Please vote! Go Alcott!

[LuElla D'Amico @LuElla_DAmico]

Y’all: it is 50/50. 50/50! Where are my Marchers?!

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Save the date! April 27 6:30-8:00 PM, the Concord Free Public Library will host (in person and virtual) the first event for the Joel Myerson annual lecture series! @FullerSociety @AlcottSociety @ThoreauSociety @AmLit_ALA
https://t.co/kOyLfzDn8w

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Do you have research to share on Alcott and archival collections or her novel WORK (1873)? If so, please consider proposing a paper for our sessions at the ALA conference in Boston (May 25-28, 2023): https://t.co/ECo6GE98ME

[🥕Haley Stewart🥕 @HaleyCarrots]

Thoughts on the life-changing power of Little Women, my mother, and the search for Marmee:
https://t.co/tdJSdm3Ujc

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In Opinion

Is the writer Louisa May Alcott best understood today as a trans man?

"I believe Alcott’s own statements give the lie to the notion that transgender identity is strictly a modern fad," @peytonology writes. https://t.co/9SQ0BgSzXR