SOURCE: "Louisa May Alcott: Little Women," in What Katy Read: Feminist Re-readings of 'Classic' Stories for Girls, University of Iowa Press, 1995, pp. 85-106.
In the following chapter, Foster and Simons explain that critics tend to be emotionally engaged with Little Women because its subject, female development, is universally mythic, and its realism keeps it timeless.
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