Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte: Transatlantic Translations

“Doyle demonstrates that Alcott kept up a running dialogue with her distinguished British counterpart, both contesting and adapting Brontë’s treatments of women’s spiritual, social, and vocational lives so as to develop her own distinctively American talent.”—Elizabeth Keyser, author of Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott

“Doyle provides an illuminating discussion of the full range of Louise May Alcott’s writing. Comparisons with Charlotte Brontë spark keen insights into l...