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Little Women: Critical Essay by Ruth K. MacDonald

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Louisa May Alcott
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SOURCE: "Louisa May Alcott's Little Women: Who is Still Reading Miss Alcott and Why," in Touchstones: Reflections on the Best in Children's Literature, Children's Literature Association, 1985, pp. 13-20.

MacDonald contrasts recent responses to Little Women with those of child readers in Alcott's time, suggesting that although modern critics often consider the book sentimental and romantic, when compared to other works of the time, it is radical and realistic.

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