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Little Women (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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Meg March, the oldest of the March girls, a plump governess to unruly neighborhood children. She marries John Brooke.

Jo March, a tall, awkward, tomboyish girl who likes to write and to devise plays and entertainments for her sisters. In character and personality, she corresponds to the author. She resents Meg’s interest in John but later is happy to have him as a brother-in-law. She writes and sells stories and becomes a governess for Mrs. Kirke in New York. Proposed to by Laurie, she rejects him. She later marries Professor Bhaer, with whom she...

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