Louisa May Alcott, the author of “Little Women,” may have written more works than readers were aware of, thanks to a scholar who made an interesting discovery.
Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, believes he found roughly 20 stories and poems written by Louisa May Alcott under her own name and under pseudonyms, according to the Associated Press (AP).
The literature is believed to have been written in the late 1850s and early 1960s.
One of the supposed pseudonyms is E.H. Gould, who is credited with writing a story about Alcott’s Concord, Massachusetts, home as well as a ghost story similar to Charles Dickens’ beloved novel “A Christmas Carol.”
Chapnick also found poems written under the name “Flora Fairfield,” a known pseudonym of Alcott’s, the AP reported.
“It’s saying she’s really like … she’s hustling, right? She’s publishing a lot,” Chapnick shared with the AP while visiting the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts – a national research library of pre-20th century American history and culture.
While there, Chapnick also came across the first edition of “Little Women.”
The classic novel about the four March sisters was originally published in two installments in 1868-1969.
Chapnick found the additional stories while doing research on “spiritualism and mesmerism,” the AP stated.
“As he scrolled through digitized newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society, he found a story titled ‘The Phantom.
