SOURCE: "Reading Little Women," in A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott's Place in American Culture, Rutgers University Press, 1987, pp. 195-218.
In the following chapter, Elbert identifies major themes in Alcott's work as exemplified in Little Women, tying them all to an ideal of "domestic democracy."
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