Subject for June, 2016

Chapter 47 – Harvest Time

Subject: Little Women

For a year Jo and her Professor worked and waited, hoped and loved, met occasionally, and wrote such voluminous letters that the rise in the price of paper was accounted for, ...

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Chapter 46 – Under The Umbrella

Subject: Little Women

While Laurie and Amy were taking conjugal strolls over velvet carpets, as they set their house in order, and planned a blissful future, Mr. Bhaer and Jo were enjoying promenad...

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Chapter 45 – Daisy And Demi

Subject: Little Women

I cannot feel that I have done my duty as humble historian of the March family, without devoting at least one chapter to the two most precious and important members of it. Da...

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Chapter 44 – My Lord And Lady

Subject: Little Women

"Please, Madam Mother, could you lend me my wife for half an hour? The luggage has come, and I’ve been making hay of Amy’s Paris finery, trying to find some ...

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Chapter 43 – Surprises

Subject: Little Women

Jo was alone in the twilight, lying on the old sofa, looking at the fire, and thinking. It was her favorite way of spending the hour of dusk. No one disturbed her, and she u...

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Chapter 42 – All Alone

Subject: Little Women

It was easy to promise self-abnegation when self was wrapped up in another, and heart and soul were purified by a sweet example. But when the helpful voice was silent, the da...

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Chapter 41 – Learning To Forget

Subject: Little Women

Amy’s lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’...

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Chapter 40 – The Valley Of The Shadow

Subject: Little Women

When the first bitterness was over, the family accepted the inevitable, and tried to bear it cheerfully, helping one another by the increased affection which comes to bind hou...

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Chapter 39 – Lazy Laurence

Subject: Little Women

Laurie went to Nice intending to stay a week, and remained a month. He was tired of wandering about alone, and Amy’s familiar presence seemed to give a homelike charm t...

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Chapter 38 – On The Shelf

Subject: Little Women

In France the young girls have a dull time of it till they are married, when ‘Vive la liberte!’ becomes their motto. In America, as everyone knows, girls early si...

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