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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Type of Work:
Sentimental, life drama
Setting
A small New England town; mid 1800s
Principal Characters
Mrs. March ("Marinee"), mother of four daughters
Mr. March, her husband, and army chaplain in the U.S. Civil War
Meg, their 16-year-old daughter
Jo, 15, wants to be an independent writer (and serves as the novel's narrator)
Beth, a frail girl of 13, the "heart" of her family
Amy, 12, the beautiful pampered youngest daughter
Theodore Lawrence (Laurie), the boy who moves in next door
Story Overview
The upcoming Christmas looked like it would be a bleak affair to the four March girls. With their father at the Civil War battlefront, and their saintly mother, Marmee, as they called her, working to support her family, the holiday would be void of many of its traditional pleasures. With the dollar Marmee said they might spend, the girls each settled on buying simple gifts for their mother and for the Hummel family down......

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Approximate Word Count: 1488
Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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