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...daddy’s girl”—a manifestation of maternal jealousy coupled with an inner drive fueled by a father’s support—and the “tomboy,” who has as a prototype Alcott??s character Jo March from Little Women...
It’s easy to relegate Little Women, Louisa May Alcott??s beloved story of the March sisters, to the fourth-grade-chick-lit shelf along with Laura Ingalls Wilder and The Baby Sitters’ Club. But 16 Harvard students and one history professor are singing Little Women’s merits as an informative and unique historical work...
This semester, visiting Professor in History Catherine Allgor is teaching a conference course entitled “The World of Little Women,” which uses Alcott??s novel as a primary text. Modifying a course she taught at Simmons College, Allgor hopes to use the course to discover to what use historians can put such novels...
Inspired by Louisa May Alcott??s classic, Weber’s The Little Women tells the story of three sisters (Jo, Meg and Amy) whose disappointment with both their mother’s affair and their father’s dismissive attitude about it lead them to live on their own with Meg acting in as their mother. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...