Four sisters, each vivid, but composed, really, of just a few brushstrokes. Here, neatly categorized for us before we’ve made it out of the first chapter, are four different ways of being a girl. There’s something tempting about this drawing of lines.
For the Ploughshares blog, Clare Beams discusses why Little Women continues to appeal to readers over a century after it was written.
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