Friedrich Bhaer, the German professor who meets Jo in the first blush of her move to New York, is one of the most important characters in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Finally, with this ...

acting more like an actual three-dimensional character who plays an active role in Jo's life besides being a perennial lovesick suitor. Overall, 1949's Little Women is arguably the most ...

In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, with their father away serving in the Civil War, the women of the March family--the loving matriarch, Marmee, and her four daughters, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth ...

young women, and focuses simply on their domestic adventures and their development of their characters is something that’s new with Little Women and that influences a whole range of children’s ...