This author anonymously published a novel that records Jasper Helwyze’s attempts to undermine Canaris’s relationship with Gladys. Madeline Stern and Leona Rostenberg collected many of this author’s stories, which were written under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard. As part of the No Name series, this author published the thriller A Modern Mephistopheles. This author’s contemporary reimagining of Cinderella in the (*) 1800’s was alternatively titled “A Little Old Shoe.” The transcendentalist ideals and abolitionism of this author’s father Bronson was reflected in one novel by the central family not attending church and Professor Bhaer’s defense of atheism. The death of this author’s sister Lizzie inspired her character Beth’s death from scarlet fever. For 10 points, name this author of Little Women. ■END■
ANSWER: Louisa May Alcott
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