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Cartoon: Little women: Meg, Amy, Beth, Jo and Marmee face life in the '80s -- Waiting together: Alcott on matriarchy -- Little women: Alcott's civil war -- Introduction to Little women -- Reading for love: canons, paracanons, and whistling Jo March -- "The most beautiful things in all the world"? families in Little women -- Portraying Little women through the ages -- Getting cozy with a classic: visualizing Little women (1868-1995) -- "Queer performances": lesbian politics in Little women -- Men and Little women: notes of a resisting (male) reader -- In Jo Garret: Little women and the space of imagination -- "A power in the house": Little women and the architecture of individual expression -- Prophets and the martyrs: pilgrims and missionaries in Little women and Jack and Jill -- Greater happiness: searching for feminist utopia in Little women -- Transatlantic translations: communities of education in Alcott and Brontë -- Learning from Marmee's teaching: Alcott's response to girls' miseducation -- Songs to aging children: Louisa May Alcott's March trilogy -- Autobiography and the boundaries of interpretation: on reading Little women and the Living is easy -- Alcott in Japan: a selected bibliography -- Selected bibliography of Alcott biography and criticism