Little Women - What Happened Next

[sherlock2040]

As part of my current OU module, I’m studying Children’s Literature. This has meant slogging my way though Louisa M. Alcott’s supposedly generation defining work ‘Little Women’ (and ‘Good Wives’). I didn’t dislike the first part as I thought I was going to, found it twee and rather patronising but not soul destroying… unlike the second part, which

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[timetiger]

The Amy and Laurie bits especially have the ring of truth.

I went through a stage of loving Alcott when I was growing up, but re-reading Jack and Jill and Eight Cousins in the last year or so I was astonished at how preachy she is. How could I have missed it?