Editing Louisa May Alcott (section)

=== 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}}