Little Women series?

Question

I'm reading little women right now and only have a few more chapters left. I was wondering what happens in the other books in the series. Could you please tell me without giving to much away.

P.S I am sooooo mad jo and laurie didn't end up together, what do you think? :-)

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Bit of trivia: Little Women was originally published in two volumes: Little Women and Good Wives. Today, both volumes are published as Little Women.

Little Men is the next in the series. Jo is married, and she inherits Plumfield from her Aunt March. Jo and her husband turn Plumfield into a school where they take in, mostly, little boys who have nobody else or who have gotten into some trouble. This book deals mostly with Jo, her husband and "her" boys. It's a great novel; very different than Little Women.

The next in the series is Jo's Boys. This one continues at Plumfield, but the boys you meet in Little Men - including Jo's two sons - are grown up. It follows their lives, but from the perspective of Jo and Plumfield.

When I first read Little Women, I was upset that Jo and Laurie didn't end up together. When I read it again, however, I realized that Jo and Laurie were better as friends than lovers. They would have been at each other's throats continually; they were too much alike. Though similar, Laurie was more polished and sophisticated than Jo. He would move in a higher society and need a wife who could do so, too. Jo would have felt out of place. She doesn't feel out of place at Plumfield. You may not believe that now, but I'd urge you to read the other books and see if you don't agree eventually.

I love this series - and other books by Louisa May Alcott.

Happy reading!

***Edit: Actually Eight Cousins and A Rose in Bloom are a two-part series, neither of which have anything to do with the Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys series. The others, like An Old-Fashioned Girl, Jack and Jill, Under the Lilacs and others have nothing whatever to do with the Little Women series. In other words, though Jo's Boys was written after some of Louisa May Alcott's other books, it doesn't follow that the others are a part of the series - they are not.

There is Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (it can be read here http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26041 ) which is a collection of short stories and is often referred to as the 4th in the Little Women series.

Answer 3

Little men is the title for the next book.  It talks about the life of the boys that Jo had gotten after they had grown up.  They are still at Plumfield.  Plumfield has become a college.

Jo and Laurie didn't end up together.  Jo ended up with the professor and Laurie ended up with Amy.  Beth died.

Answer 4

Actually, the next book in the series is An Old-Fashioned Girl, published in 1870.  Little Men was published in 1871, followed by Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, and finaly Jo's Boys in 1886.