A Peek Into a Girl’s Book...

A Peek Into a Girl’s Book...

A good review of Louisa May Alcott's book "Little Women" on The Heritage American blog.

A Peek Into a Girl’s Book: Little Women and Traditional Womanhood

...Here we find the moral values at the core of America’s greatness, but also the seeds of America’s future sacrifice of everything it has and is to non-Western “humanity.” When the March girls sacrifice their Christmas breakfast to a poor German woman with six children, we see the native American sense of charity in all its sweetness, but we may also note how easily such an impulse could morph into suicidal liberalism...

...And though modern critics would attack the book for “suppressing” the black, American Indian, and other “marginal” viewpoints, the truth is that the March girls are just being themselves. They live their own lives in their own society, and it is because their society is relatively homogeneous that they are able to live with a sense of higher meaning, struggling to do good and develop as women, within the common understandings of that society...

Also see

The Heritage American Essays on American Culture, Traditionalist Conservatism, Politics, Race, and Immigration