Scholar Discovers Unidentified Works Possibly Authored by Louisa May Alcott

Max Chapnick Unearths Stories and Poems Believed to be Written Under Pseudonyms, Shedding New Light on Alcott's Early Career

Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, has discovered around 20 stories and poems believed to be written by Louisa May Alcott under her own name and pseudonyms.
The works were found in digitized newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society and are thought to have been written in the late 1850s and early 1960s.
One of the pseudonyms used is E.H. Gould, credited with a story about Alcott's home in Concord, Massachusetts, and a ghost story similar to Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'.
Chapnick also found poems written under the name 'Flora Fairfield', a known pseudonym of Alcott's.
While there is no definitive proof of Alcott's authorship, there is substantial circumstantial evidence, and the discovery has been deemed a 'compelling case' by other scholars.