March Sisters by Kate Bolick

Author:Kate Bolick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2019-04-26T19:20:29+00:00

1. bell hooks, Susan Sontag, Ursula K. Le Guin, Simone de Beauvoir, Gloria Steinem, Jhumpa Lahiri, Patti Smith, Nora Ephron, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Zadie Smith, Erica Jong, Elizabeth Alexander, J. K. Rowling, and Maxine Hong Kingston, to name a few.

2. By contrast, Amy March, the youngest and most spoiled March sister, who often serves as the foil to Jo in the book, getting the opportunities that are denied to Jo, is decidedly not in the running for ­genius. When we check back in on the March sisters in part two of Little Women, Amy’s chapter begins with extreme shade: “It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation; for, mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity.”

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