Alcott, Louisa May | Angela M. Estes and Kathleen M. Lant (essay date 1994)
Angela M. Estes and Kathleen M. Lant (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "'Unlovely, Unreal Creatures': Resistance and Relationship in Louisa May Alcott's 'Fancy's Friend'," in The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 18, No. 2, December, 1994, pp. 154-70.
[In the following essay, Estes and Lant emphasize the ambiguity and complexity of Alcott's portrayal of "a young girl's entry into the world of Adulthood" in "Fancy's Friend."]
Joy Marsella concludes her work on the children's stories of Louisa May Alcott (The Promise of Destiny) with a discussion of Alcott's "Fancy's Friend" and its placement as the final story in the six-volume Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag series. Marsella argues that the story epitomizes and clarifies Alcott's approach to her children's fiction; Alcott recognized, says Marsella, "the practical nature of her work" and was fully aware of her responsibility to her young readers to contribute "to the education of the child": "Alcott...
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