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Originally Posted by wandalynn
Got a slot for Alcott?
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You recall to me a question I've had: do girls read Alcott anymore? I read and reread those books, but I suspect that the language and the setting are too antiquated for today's ten-year old. Not that they weren't antiquated when I read them, but it didn't seem to faze kids then as much.
My favorites were
An Old-Fashioned Girl and
Jack and Jill, and not the
Little Women trilogy--or
Little Women alone (make that
Little Women plus
Good Wives for the British), since
Little Men and
Jo's Boys weren't very good. I think this holds up; if nothing else, it's hard to forgive Jo for turning down Laurie and taking Professor Bhaer. Staying single, as her doppelganger did, would have been preferable.