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    Smug Little Women

    Dec 13, 2023 2 minutes

    ‘Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents…’ is how Little Women, Louisa May Alcott's classic novel for girls, written in 1869, begins.

    The March family, having been well-off, are now in financial straits for reasons unspecified. The first chapter deals with the four

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