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He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth. Jackson said that Alcott's use of realism belongs to the American Protestant pedagogical tradition, which includes a range of religious literary traditions with which Alcott was familiar. I was in the most unpleasant depths of a cold, and my brain felt as though it was stuffed with cotton wool. In a world full of manners and propriety she sticks out, and she is very self-aware of this knowing everything girly goes against her core being, and that this is not really socially acceptable in polite society.

She "struggled" with her illustrative additions to her sister's book, but later improved her skills and found some success as an artist. Adult elements of women's fiction in Little Women included "a change of heart necessary" for the female protagonist to evolve in the story. I won’t be able to do the challenge, but, will visit Joyfully Retired for fun and see what is up there as well. Ruth MacDonald argued that "Louisa May Alcott stands as one of the great American practitioners of the girls' novel and the family story.March is as brisk and cheery, though rather grayer, than when we saw her last, and just now so absorbed in Meg’s affairs that the hospitals and homes, still full of wounded “boys” and soldiers’ widows, decidedly miss the motherly missionary’s visits. To outsiders, the five energetic women seemed to rule the house, and so they did in many things; but the quiet scholar, sitting among his books, was still the head of the family, the household conscience, anchor, and comforter for to him the busy, anxious women always turned in troublous times, finding him, in the truest sense of those sacred words, husband and father. I suppose it would be profanation to eat anything in this spick-and-span new bower, so, as I’m tremendously hungry, I propose an adjournment,” he added presently.

Another reason for the rejection is that the love that Laurie has for Jo is more of a sisterly love, rather than romantic love, the difference between which he was unable to understand because he was "just a boy", as said by Alcott in the book. Her chief publications after Little Women are the following: An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1871-79), Work (1873), Silver Pitchers (1876), Rose in Bloom (1876), Jo's Boys (1886), and A Garland for Girls (1887). Often coddled because she is the youngest, Amy can behave in a vain and self-centered way, though she does still love her family. Nymeth reviewed March by Geraldine Brooks recently, which is told from the perspective of Mr March when he’s off at War; it and now this has made me want to reread Alcott and then read it.There were no marble-topped tables, long mirrors, or lace curtains in the little parlor, but simple furniture, plenty of books, a fine picture or two, a stand of flowers in the bay window, and, scattered all about, the pretty gifts which came from friendly hands, and were the fairer for the loving messages they brought. Not an invalid exactly, but never again the rosy, healthy creature she had been, yet always hopeful, happy, and serene, busy with the quiet duties she loved, everyone’s friend, and an angel in the house, long before those who loved her most had learned to know it.