If in Little Women, Alcott lays out what a good girl should aspire to—happiness and marriage—the book’s very existence demonstrates what an ambitious girl can hope to achieve: literary fame. It is, indeed, subversive, sustained by an almost unbearable tension between action and commentary and between its fiction and Alcott’s reality.
The American Prospect | The Mother of All Girls’ Books
Really like this piece about Little Women, a story I have spent a lot of time in my life loving but not as much thinking about in any critical/contextual/historical way. I had chillbumps all the way through; not entirely sure why.
Source: prospect.org
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