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Vibrant, fresh, and intelligent, The Little Women Letters explores the imagined lives of Jo March’s descendants—three sisters who are both thoroughly modern and thoroughly March. As uplifting and essential as Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Gabrielle Donnelly’s novel will speak to anyone... read more
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- Lulu Atwater: Middle sister, main character
- Emma Atwater, Josephine: Oldest sister, planning her wedding
- Sophie Atwater: Youngest sister, wants to act in plays
- Fee Atwater: Mom, very wise
- David Atwater: Dad
- Charlie Fitzcharles: Lulu's friend and flatmate
- Matthew: Engaged to Emma
- Jamie: Sophie's friend, an actor
- Tom: American man who is renting a room in the Atwater house
Quotes edit
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“"What do you do?" she asked him. "When someone breaks your faith?""Well, it's a difficult one," he said." It's going to hurt for a while, and you just have to know that and steel yourself to hang in there till it gets better. It does get better, though, so long as you haven't broken any faith yourself. I always feel that if you can look yourself in the eye, most things do get better."”
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“The only person you can be in control of is you. And in the end, that's the only person whose conscience you have the right to care about.”
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“"Thank you, my dear, but I'm just as content to sit with my book and improve my mind, which always needs it, rather than the house, which doesn't."”
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“Is you my great-great-aunt?... Is that because you has such a great great belly?”
Demi
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It’s years of commitment and loving and making decisions and making jokes and cooking supper and saying the right thing and saying the wrong thing and making mistakes and forgiving each other for mistakes until over the years you find that, together, you’ve formed a great, big, wildly colored tapestry of a whole shared life.
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It’s two imperfect human beings coming together and scrambling and struggling and rough-and-tumbling their way through a lot of obstacles—whether it’s crossing an ocean
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“Although our circumstances might not permit grand gestures, that is no reason for us not to return kindness to those who have been kind to us. There are many gifts to be given, girls, that are more valuable by far than those that have been purchased with mere money.”
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First Sentence edit
Plumfield, October 1888. Dearest Amy, My daughter has arrived in this world, and bless the infant, she is the reddest and the squallingest baby you ever did see!
Authors & Contributors edit
- Gabrielle Donnelly (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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