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Little Women is a semi-autobiographical novel.Little Women = widely read Louisa May Alcott novel of four sisters growing up (1868-1869)
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When encouraged to write a girls' book which became Little Women, Alcott was relucent. She confided to a friend, "I could not write a girls' story knowing little about any but my own sisters and always preferring boys."
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And all four had tears running down their cheeks when Beth died in Little Women. (source)Little Women = widely read Louisa May Alcott novel of four sisters with numerous film adaptations (1868-1869)
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And Little Men was there, but not Little Women or Jo's Boys. (source)
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"I feel like Jo March!" and I'd known exactly what she meant, because she'd forced me to read Little Women weeks earlier, even though it was a girl's book. (source)
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When Matt called her Jo, it reminded her of Little Women, and although she was pretty sure Matt had never read the Alcott novel, secretly she was pleased to be associated with a character so strong and sure of herself. (source)
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I wonder if I slept with a peg on my nose, like Amy in Little Women, if it would make it smaller? (source)Little Women = widely read Louisa May Alcott novel of four sisters with numerous film adaptations (1868-1869)
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"Little Women" (twice), "The Common Law," (source)
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"Little Women," and "Heidi," a beautiful little story which I afterward read in German. (source)
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She told them the plot of Little Women in ten minutes, a miracle of compression, especially since her book report had been seven typed pages. (source)
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I loved "Little Women" because it gave me a sense of kinship with girls and boys who could see and hear. (source)
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Then, in the same note: "Butterfly is the most irresistibly appealing of Puccini's 'Little Women.'" (source)Little Women = different "Little Women" than often referenced from Louisa May Alcott's famous novel by that name
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Little Women — Louisa May Alcott CHAPTER ONE — PLAYING PILGRIMS (source)Little Women = untracked phrase in this novel
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He had given Deets one of the little women figures he whittled—Deets was very proud of it, and kept it in the pocket of his old chaps.† (source)
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When they're all married to scraggy little women like hens and have cretinous porcine sons like themselves getting drunk at the same club dinner in the same colored coats, they'll still say, when my name is mentioned, 'We put him in Mercury one night,' and their barnyard daughters will snigger and think their father was quite a dog in his day, and what a pity he's grown so dull.† (source)
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She was one of those obscure mouse-like little women who admire big men.† (source)
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One of the brightest little women I've met these many moons.† (source)
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"Spoken like the best of little women!" cried Richard gaily.† (source)
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Whether it ever rises again, depends upon the reception given the first act of the domestic drama called Little Women. (source)Little Women = untracked phrase in this novel
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He might sing to them in his throaty voice, but he was a man of mystery, a strange man, walking all day behind the wagon, and at night whittling his little women.† (source)
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At the Outing we've got a bunch of real human fellows, and the finest lot of little women in town—just as good at joshing as the men—but at the Tonawanda there's nothing but these would-be's in New York get-ups, drinking tea!† (source)
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I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women. (source)
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THE great events of Babbitt's spring were the secret buying of real-estate options in Linton for certain street-traction officials, before the public announcement that the Linton Avenue Car Line would be extended, and a dinner which was, as he rejoiced to his wife, not only "a regular society spread but a real sure-enough highbrow affair, with some of the keenest intellects and the brightest bunch of little women in town."† (source)
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The two older girls were a great deal to one another, but each took one of the younger sisters into her keeping and watched over her in her own way, 'playing mother' they called it, and put their sisters in the places of discarded dolls with the maternal instinct of little women. (source)
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