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Jo March, now Mrs Bhaer, and her kind German husband run Plumfield, a school in the country where boys are taught with affection rather than the cane, learning through games, gardens, pets and honest talk as well as lessons. The book follows a year in the lives of a dozen children: Nat, a shy street fiddler; Dan, a wild runaway; Nan, a tomboy; Demi and Daisy, the twins of Jo's sister Meg; and others, through small adventures, pillow fights and a few hard lessons.
Context and significance
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) published this sequel to Little Women in 1871, and it reflects the progressive ideas about education of her father, the teacher Bronson Alcott. The story continues in Jo's Boys. See her life.
About the author
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, daughter of the idealistic and often penniless educator Bronson Alcott; Emerson and Thoreau were family friends and teachers. To support her family she sewed, taught, worked as a servant and wrote sensational thrillers under a pen name.
During the Civil War she nursed soldiers in Washington until she fell gravely ill. When her publisher asked for a book for girls, she wrote Little Women (1868), drawn from her own family, and it made her famous and secure. She campaigned against slavery and for women's right to vote.