SOURCE: "Little Women: Alcott's Civil War," in Feminist Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer, 1979, pp. 369-83.
In the following essay, Fetterley argues that Little Women reveals stylistic and thematic compromises that were made by Alcott in deference to prevailing social opinions of the time and the preferences of her publisher.
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