![]() ![]() She takes time to help her children develop their character without putting preachy lessons on the subject before them ![]() She is as spirited and active as you imagine her to be in Little Women. Marmee enjoys her children, enjoys friends, and enjoys taking time with her own thoughts. She struggles to accept his sincere and childlike belief that God will provide for his family even if he himself does not always do so. She loves him and enjoys him, but is not blind to his faults. We hear her thoughts on her husband, who even when present in the home was largely “absent” in the world of his own thoughts and dreams. ![]() We learn of her struggles to bite her tongue and control her anger. We see Marmee as a crusader for the poor and the immigrants, helping in the Relief Rooms in Concord and on her own time in back alleys. Written as very long, prose-y diary entries, the story starts where Little Womenstarts and ends where it ends. ![]() Author Louisa May Alcott’s family was part of the society in Concord that included Emerson, Hawthorne and Thoreau. Margaret March, the mother in Little Women known as “Marmee” was an interesting woman. “Little intimidates a man more than a learned woman.” ![]()
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