NovelAmerican · 1868Study guide · no full textGentle

Little Women

A domestic novel that quietly argues for women's work and women's art. Watch how Jo's writing is treated by everyone around her — and what Alcott decides to do with it.

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Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle.”

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

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The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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