Meg, Jo, Beth Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

Since its publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women has been one of America’s favorite stories. This book tells the story of its creation, life over the course of the 20th century, and relevance today.

Penguin Classics Annverisary Edition of Little Women

A new edition of the beloved classic in celebration of the 150th anniversary, with a foreword by Patti Smith, and an introduction, extended glossary, and contextual essays by me.

Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist

Chosen as one of the ten best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune. "Editor's Choice" by the New York Times Books Review.

Constance Fenimore Woolson: Collected Stories

A landmark of literary recovery: the first major edition of one of the most esteemed and popular writers of nineteenth-century America.

Miss Grief and Other Stories, by Consatnce Fenimore Woolson

Discover the fiction of a writer once deemed America’s “Novelist Laureate” – The Boston Globe. Foreword by Colm Toibin.

Wielding the Pen: Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Ninteenth Century

These writings, some of which are reprinted here for the first time, challenge prevailing notions about women and authorship in the nineteenth century.

Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America

About the first generation of American women who strived for recognition as serious literary artists