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New work by the author of "Little Women" discovered

American author Louisa May Alcott was one of the 19th century's most pioneering writers and a lifelong advocate of women's rights, emancipation and abolitionism. Among her vast body of written work she remains best known though for "Little Women" published in two instalments in 1868-69. Her classic coming of age novel about the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, has been adapted several times into feature films, famously in 1933 with Katherine Hepburn and most recently by the director Greta Gerwig in 2019. But it seems as if Louisa May Alcott may have been more productive then previously thought. Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, believes he's found previously unknown material that can be attributed to her.

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