A researcher has discovered about a dozen stories and poems believed to have been written by Louisa May Alcott under a previously unidentified pseudonym. She was known to have gone by several pseudonyms during her career, and E.H. Gould is the potential new moniker discovered by Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate in English at Northeastern University.
Little Women is one of my all-time favorite books and I was excited to see these new discoveries. The researcher mentions that he thinks there are even more stories out there like this that people will find in the future. Do you think Alcott could have more undiscovered works out there? https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/11/08/louisa-may-alcott-new-pseudonym/
Certainly within the realm of possibility, but by no means “widely accepted.” She was non-conforming by her society’s gender standards, but in ways that don’t really map neatly to our own society’s definitions of gender. She may have been what we think of as trans, bisexual, or just a non-conformist straight woman–there isn’t really enough evidence to point at any of those conclusions definitively.