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Title: Comic Tragedies
Written by 'Jo' and 'Meg' and Acted by The 'Little Women'

Author: Louisa M. Alcott

Release Date: September 24, 2010 [EBook #33986]

Language: English

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COMIC TRAGEDIES

Jo and Meg

[Illustration: JO AND MEG.

COPIES OF EARLY DAGUERREOTYPES.

"It was at this period of her life that she was violently attacked by a
mania for the stage, and writing and enacting dramas. Her older sister,
Anna, had the same taste, and assisted her in carrying out all her
plans."
_Mrs. Cheney's Life of Louisa M. Alcott._]

COMIC TRAGEDIES

WRITTEN BY "JO" AND "MEG"
AND ACTED BY
THE "LITTLE WOMEN"

BOSTON
ROBERTS BROTHERS
1893

_Copyright, 1893_,
By Anna B. Pratt.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

CONTENTS.
Page

A Foreword, by Meg . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Norna; or, The Witch's Curse . . . . . . . . 17

The Captive of Castile; or, The Moorish
Maiden's Vow . . . . . . . . . . . 97

The Greek Slave . . . . . . . . . . 149

Ion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Bianca: an Operatic Tragedy . . . . . . . 261

The Unloved Wife; or, Woman's Faith . .