SOURCE: "Louisa May Alcott: The Influence of Little Women," in Women, the Arts, and the 1920s in Paris and New York, edited by Kenneth W. Wheeler and Virginia Lee Lussier, Transaction Books, 1982, pp. 20-26.
In the following essay, Heilbrun argues that Little Women's Jo has been a model of female autonomy for twentieth-century women artists.
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