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A Long Fatal Love Chase
''A Long Fatal Love Chase'' is a suspense novel by Louisa May Alcott. She wrote it in 1866, two years before the publication of ''Little Women'' (1868) finally established her literary reputation and began to resolve her financial problems. The manuscript remained unpublished until 1995.
==Publication history==
In 1866, Louisa May Alcott toured Europe for the first time; being poor, she traveled as the paid companion of an invalid. Upon her return, she found her family in financial straits,〔 so when publisher James R. Elliot asked her to write another novel suitable for serialisation in the magazine ''The Flag of Our Union'' (mockingly referred to as ''The Weekly Volcano'' in ''Little Women''),〔King, Stephen. "Blood and thunder in Concord." ''The New York Times'', September 10, 1995 ((full text) )〕 Alcott dashed off a 292-page Gothic romance entitled ''A Modern Mephistopheles, or The Fatal Love Chase''. She gave the novel a European setting and incorporated many of her still-fresh travel experiences and observations; Elliot, however, rejected it for being "too long & too sensational!",〔Eiselein, Gregory (quoting Louisa May Alcott's journal from September 1866). ''The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia'' (Anne K. Phillips, editor). Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 185-6.〕 whereupon she changed the title to ''Fair Rosamond'' and undertook extensive revisions to shorten the novel and tone down its more controversial elements. Despite these changes, the book was again rejected, and Alcott laid the manuscript aside.
''Fair Rosamond'' ended up in Harvard's Houghton Library.〔"Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Additional papers, 1849-1887: Guide." Harvard Houghton Library, accessed 9/14/07; ((full text) )〕 The earlier draft was auctioned off by Alcott's heirs and eventually fell into the hands of a Manhattan rare book dealer. In 1994, Kent Bicknell, headmaster of the Sant Bani School in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, paid "more than his annual salary but less than $50,000" for the unexpurgated version of the manuscript. After restoring it, he sold the publication rights to Random House, receiving a $1.5 million advance. Bicknell donated 25% of the profits to Orchard House (the museum of the Alcott Family), 25% to the Alcott heirs, and 25% to the Sant Bani School.〔Montgomery, M.R. "How Alcott manuscript made it to print is its own fascinating story." ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', September 15, 1995.〕
In 1995, Random House released the novel in a hardbound edition under the title ''A Long Fatal Love Chase.'' It became a best-seller, and an audiobook version soon followed. The novel is still in print (September 2007) as a trade paperback from Dell Books.〔Amazon bookstore, accessed 9/14/07; ((full text) )〕
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