Little Women
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My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer. - J. K. RowlingI read Little Women a thousand times. Ten thousand. I am no longer incognito, not even myself. I am Jo in her vortex.-Cynthia OzickJo has given generations of readers like ... me permission to try to become who we wished. She has helped us to recognize - and to live with, knowing were not alone - the conflict between the writers need for solitude and self-absorption and the yearning for the warmth of love. - Gail Mazura glimpse of my future self ... I identified myself passionately with Jo ... reading this novel gave me an exalted sense of myself. -- Simone de BeauvoirLouisa May Alcott ended Little Women (1868) with the words So the curtain falls upon Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Whether it ever rises again, depends upon the reception given the first act of the domestic drama called Little Women. It was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers wanted to know more about the characters as they navigate a path between domestic obligations and personal growth. Alcott quickly completed a second volume, Good Wives (1869), and later Little Men (1871) and Jos Boys (1886). The novels follow the lives of the four March sisters-Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy, each very different:Meg looked very like a rose herself, for all that was best and sweetest in heart and soul seemed to bloom into her faceYou are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. Im not afraid. - BethI may be mercenary, but I hate poverty, and dont mean to bear it a minute longer than I can help. One of us must marry well. -- AmyThe four March sisters embody different as
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