Editing Louisa May Alcott (section)

== Legacy ==
=== Alcott homes ===
The Alcotts' Concord home, Orchard House, where the family lived for 25 years{{sfn|Alcott|2015|p=689}} and where ''Little Women'' was written, is open to the public and pays homage to the Alcotts by focusing on public education and historic preservation.{{sfn|Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House}} The Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association, which was founded in 1911 and runs the museum, allows tourists to walk through the house and learn about Louisa May Alcott.<ref>{{Harvnb|Anderson|1995|pages=114, 117}}; {{Harvnb|Delamar|1990|p=247}}</ref> Her Boston home is featured on the [[Boston Women's Heritage Trail]].{{sfn|Boston Women's Heritage Trail}}

=== Film and television ===
''Little Women'' inspired film versions in [[Little Women (1933 film)|1933]], [[Little Women (1949 film)|1949]], [[Little Women (1994 film)|1994]], [[Little Women (2018 film)|2018]], and [[Little Women (2019 film)|2019]]. The novel also inspired television series in [[Little Women (1958 TV series)|1958]], [[Little Women (1970 TV series)|1970]], [[Little Women (1978 film)|1978]], and [[Little Women (2017 TV series)|2017]], [[anime]] versions in [[Little Women (1981 TV series)|1981]] and [[Little Women (1987 TV series)|1987]], and a [[Little Women (musical)|2005 musical]]. It also inspired a BBC Radio 4 version in 2017.{{sfn|BBC}} ''Little Men'' inspired film versions in [[Little Men (1934 film)|1934]], [[Little Men (1940 film)|1940]], and [[Little Men (1998 film)|1998]], and was the basis for [[Little Men (TV series)|a 1998 television series]].{{sfn|Hischak|2014|p=123}} Other films based on Louisa May Alcott novels and stories are ''[[An Old-Fashioned Girl (film)|An Old-Fashioned Girl]]'' (1949),{{sfn|Turner Classic Movies}} ''The Inheritance'' (1997),{{sfn|Scott|1997}} and ''[[An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving]]'' (2008).{{sfn|Scheib|2008}} "Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'" aired in 2009 as part of the ''[[American Masters]]'' biography series and was aired a second time on May 20, 2018.{{sfn|R., Cindy|2018}} It was directed by Nancy Porter and written by Harriet Reisen, who wrote the script based on primary sources from Alcott's life.{{sfn|louisamayalcott.net}} The documentary, which starred [[Elizabeth Marvel]] as Louisa, was shot onsite for the events it covered. It included interviews with Louisa May Alcott scholars, including [[Sarah Elbert]], Daniel Shealy, [[Madeleine B. Stern|Madeleine Stern]], [[Leona Rostenberg]], and Geraldine Brooks.{{sfn|R., Cindy|2018}}

=== Popular culture ===
Alcott appears as the protagonist in the ''Louisa May Alcott Mystery'' series, written by [[Jeanne Mackin]] under the pseudonym Anna Maclean.<ref>{{harvnb|Louisa May Alcott Mystery}}; {{harvnb|McMichael|2011}}</ref> In book one, ''Louisa and the Missing Heiress'', Louisa is living in Boston in 1854{{sfn|Louisa and the Missing Heiress, Publishers Weekly}} and writing her sensation stories.{{sfn|Louisa and the Missing Heiress, Penguin Random House}} She finds the dead body of a fictional friend who recently returned from a honeymoon and solves the mystery.<ref>{{harvnb|Louisa and the Missing Heiress, Publishers Weekly}}; {{harvnb|Louisa and the Missing Heiress, Penguin Random House}}</ref> ''Louisa and the Country Bachelor'' follows Louisa as she visits cousins in Walpole, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1855 and discovers the dead body of an immigrant bachelor.<ref>{{harvnb|Shoop}}; {{harvnb|Louisa and the Country Bachelor, Penguin Random House}}</ref> Louisa decides to solve what she suspects is a murder.{{sfn|Louisa and the Country Bachelor, Penguin Random House}} In ''Louisa and the Crystal Gazer'', the third and final book in the series, she solves the murder of a [[divination]] woman in Boston in 1855.<ref>{{harvnb|Salmon}}; {{harvnb|Louisa and the Crystal Gazer, Penguin Random House}}</ref>

''The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott'' by Kelly O'Connor McNees takes place in Walpole in 1855 and follows Louisa as she finds romance.{{sfn|McMichael|2011}} Louisa falls in love with a fictional character named Joseph Singer but chooses to pursue a profession as a writer instead of continuing her relationship with Singer.<ref>{{harvnb|The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, Penguin Random House}}; {{harvnb|The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, Kirkus Reviews}}</ref> In ''Only Gossip Prospers'' by Lorraine Tosiello, Louisa visits New York City shortly after publishing ''Little Women''. During her trip, Louisa seeks to remain anonymous because of an unrevealed circumstance from her past.{{sfn|Toohey}} ''The Revelation of Louisa May Alcott'' by Michaela MacColl takes place in 1846; young Louisa solves the murder of a [[slave catcher]].<ref>{{harvnb|The Revelation of Louisa May Alcott, Kirkus Reviews}}; {{harvnb|The Revelation of Louisa May, Publishers Weekly}}</ref> Patricia O'Brien's ''The Glory Cloak'' tells of a fictional friendship between Louisa and [[Clara Barton]], Louisa's work in the Civil War, and her relationships with Thoreau and her father.{{sfn|Kritenbrink|2004}}  The [[epistolary novel]] ''The Bee and the Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson,'' by Lorraine Tosiello and Jane Cavolina, follows a fictional correspondence between Louisa and Dickinson, which Dickinson initiates in 1861 by asking Louisa for literary advice.{{sfn|Higginbotham}}

=== Influence ===
Various modern writers have been influenced and inspired by Alcott's work, particularly ''Little Women''. As a child, [[Simone de Beauvoir|Simone de Beauvior]] felt a connection to Jo and expressed, "Reading this novel gave me an exalted sense of myself.{{sfn|Atlas|2017}} [[Cynthia Ozick]] calls herself a "Jo-of-the-future", and [[Patti Smith]] explains, "[I]t was Louisa May Alcott who provided me with a positive view of my female destiny."{{sfn|Atlas|2017}} Writers influenced by Louisa May Alcott include [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[Barbara Kingsolver]], [[Gail Mazur]], [[Anna Quindlen]], [[Anne Lamott]], [[Sonia Sanchez]], [[Ann Petry]], [[Gertrude Stein]], and [[J. K. Rowling]].<ref>{{harvnb|Atlas|2017}}; {{harvnb|Eiselein|2016|p=221}}</ref> U. S. president [[Theodore Roosevelt]] said he "worshiped" Louisa May Alcott's books. Other politicians who have been impacted by her books include [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg|Ruth Bader Ginsberg]], [[Hillary Clinton]], and [[Sandra Day O'Connor]].{{sfn|Eiselein|2016|p=221}} Louisa May Alcott was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]] in 1996.{{sfn|National Women's Hall of Fame}}