Book

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1868

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Context1868lived_experience

What this book knows

Girlhood is a proving ground where ambition, beauty, sacrifice, and love compete to shape the woman each sister will become.

Sex: Present
Work: Present
Learning: Primary
Religion: Absent

education-and-formationambition-and-statusintimacy

ambition-and-status

That's my contribution toward making Father comfortable—I only sold what was my own, said Jo with a little choke in her voice.
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She enjoyed the delightful sense of power which comes when young girls first discover the new and lovely kingdom they are born to rule.
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education-and-formation

They turned Meg into a fine lady—laced into a sky-blue dress so tight she could hardly breathe, modest Meg blushed at herself in the mirror.
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The warm grasp of the friendly human hand comforted her sore heart, and seemed to lead her nearer to the Divine arm which alone could uphold her.
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Oh, Jo, the baby's dead! It died in my lap before she got home, cried Beth—I ought to have gone, said Jo, taking her sister in her arms.
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intimacy

The love of power, which sleeps in the bosoms of the best of little women, woke up all of a sudden and took possession of her.
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Illuminates

15 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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