L. Tom Perry Special Collections contains many early publications by the Transcendentalists, from works by major figures of the movement like Ralph Waldo Emerson (including his seminal essay, Nature), Henry David Thoreau (a first edition of Walden is pictured here), and Theodore Parker; to lectures given at the Concord School of Philosophy. These works are …
Books and documents from the Louisa May Alcott Collection will be on display at the Springville Museum of Art as part of the museum’s new exhibit, The Illustrated Life of Louisa May Alcott: Works of Bethanne Anderson. The exhibit features Anderson’s original artwork for the illustrated biography “The Life of Louisa May Alcott” by Yona …
2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. Special Collections has a variety of archival and rare book collections related to the war, including original letters and photographs, print histories, pamphlets, and other documents and print sources created during the Civil War (1861-1865). The Rare Literature Collections contain many examples …
Special Collections has comprehensive collections of printed works by and about American authors Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. These are some of the newest critical and biographical works we have acquired for these collections: Richard Francis, Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia (2010) Susan Cheever, Louisa May Alcott (2010) …
Authors from the Victorian era to modern times are highlighted including Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Orson F. Whitney, Orson Scott Card, Zane Grey, Leslie Norris and Jessica Day George.
In 1876, the centennial of the birth of the United States of America, Louisa M. Alcott issued a short story collection entitled Silver Pitchers, and Independence: a Centennial Love Story. The nine stories include “Transcendental Wild Oats,” a satirical portrayal of the unsuccessful utopian community Louisa’s father founded when she was a girl. The two …
In conjunction with the opening of the Florence Nightingale exhibit on Floor 3 of the HBLL, which features a number of rare books and manuscripts from Special Collections, I’d like to highlight the work of several authors who served as nurses in the American Civil War. Clara Barton was a Civil War nurse who was …
Two new biographies of Louisa May Alcott have been published in recent months. They are some of the newest additions to the Louisa May Alcott collection. Yona Zeldis McDonough’s Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott is aimed at a juvenile audience. McDonough narrates Alcott’s life and provides a list of Alcott quotes, a chronology …
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 marks the 140th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic, Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. The book was first published in Boston by the firm of Roberts Brothers and originally ended with chapter 23, “Aunt March Settles the Question.” The book was an immediate success …
BYU actively collects works by and about five British and American literary authors: William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, and Walt Whitman. To help researchers better explore the contents of these collections, Special Collections is adding new resources to our website. Each of the pages for the five author collections will soon …