{"id":3401,"date":"2023-07-20T17:57:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/little-women-author-louisa-may-alcott-on-the-creative-rewards-of-being-single-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T17:57:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:57:03","slug":"little-women-author-louisa-may-alcott-on-the-creative-rewards-of-being-single-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/little-women-author-louisa-may-alcott-on-the-creative-rewards-of-being-single-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLittle Women\u201d Author Louisa May Alcott on the Creative Rewards of Being Single \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cDid she ever have a love affair? We never knew; yet how could a nature so imaginative, romantic and passionate escape it?\u201d wondered Julian Hawthorne<\/a> about his childhood friend Louisa May Alcott<\/strong> (November 29, 1832\u2013March 6, 1888).<\/p>\n

When the first part of Little Women<\/em> was published in 1868 to a wildly enthusiastic reception and the fate of her heroine became the subject of public opinion, Louisa railed against the pressure for conformity to convention:<\/p>\n

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Publishers won\u2019t let authors finish up as they like but insist on having people married off in a wholesale manner which much afflicts me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Defiantly, she vowed:<\/p>\n

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I won\u2019t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It was a refusal rooted in her own experience.<\/p>\n

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