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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

Researcher uncovers a new body of work believed to be by Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott.
‘There’s still more out there’ … Louisa May Alcott. Photograph: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis/Getty Images

A researcher has uncovered a trove of stories and poems he believes to have been written under a pseudonym by Little Women author Louisa May Alcott.

In late 2021, American academic Max Chapnick read about a story, The Phantom, while working on his PhD. The story is known to be Alcott’s – it features in the lists the writer made of her works – but had not yet been found.

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