SOURCE: Afterword, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Bantam, 1983, pp. 461-70.
Auerbach's look at Alcott's life and work suggests that although Meg, Jo, and Amy had to accept marriage as their fates, Alcott actually idealized feminist utopias that excluded marriage and men.
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