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/
Nah, they’re sensation stories, but they’re not terrible. She meant them to be pure entertainment, and that’s what they are. They’re melodramatic and a bit cheesy, like most 19th century sensation stories, but they’re a lot of fun. She knew how to handle a plot. One thing that’s interesting about them us that they’re so obviously her. If you’ve read a few of her books, you can’t miss her voice in them.