A Harvard student sleuth cracks the code on the hidden lives of Louisa May Alcott and other notable women

Louisa May Alcott's unpublished version of Jules Verne’s “Michael Strogoff” has been all but forgotten in the nearly 150 years since she composed it. But a few years ago, a Harvard doctoral candidate stumbled across the play at the Houghton Library.

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