May Alcott Nieriker wrote An Artist's Holiday while studying art in England in 1873. With some collaboration from her sister, Louisa May Alcott (the well-known author of Little Women), Alcott Nieriker detailed her experiences as an American woman living abroad and developing her skills as a professional artist. This edition is the first complete publication of An Artist's Holiday, and it provides readers with much greater access to this bold and joyful narrative. With a substantive introduction, annotations, and a developed editorial apparatus, Marlowe Daly-Galeano's edition is designed to promote further scholarly inquiry into Alcott Nieriker's impressive and diverse body of work. It offers a unique and thoughtful perspective on the Grand Tour, women's art instruction in the nineteenth century, and historical events such as the globally publicized Tichborne Trial. The different versions of Alcott Nieriker's sketches included in An Artist's Holiday demonstrate that Alcott Nieriker was as committed to writing with purpose and intention as she was to her work in the visual arts. In short, An Artist's Holiday shows that May Alcott Nieriker was much more than her fictional counterpart, Amy March.