{The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge} Book Club Wrap Up: Little Women

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In this Lutheran Ladies’ Book Club recap episode, Rachel leads Sarah and Erin in a highly anticipated conversation on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.

How does Alcott’s cast of sisters offer a range of imaginative options for understanding virtuous womanhood? What are we to make of artsy-but-annoying Amy and tomboy Jo? Despite its being filled with religious themes and moral platitudes, can we call this a Christian book? How (if at all) does it measure up as “feminist” literature in the modern age? And most pressing of all: Should Josephine March and Theodore Lawrence have gotten married in the end?

Tune in next week to hear our most epic new-book-club-pick announcement to date!