Oh, do you really? I'd be delighted to send it to you. I actually spend most of it talking about An Old-Fashioned Girl in the context of Little Women, but the first few pages are about The Wide, Wide World and The Lamplighter. (Didn't have time for Five Little Peppers or Jack and Jill.) It's kind of muddly at first because I was trying to contextualize the pseudosibling romance bit with my hypothesis about why they even need pseudosiblings, but that really needed a longer paper too.
And yes, the Wide, Wide World is completely infuriating. No, I'm sorry to say she does cry every other page all the way to the end. Does your mother's copy include the not-originally-published last chapter?
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Date: 2009-10-02 01:48 am (UTC)And yes, the Wide, Wide World is completely infuriating. No, I'm sorry to say she does cry every other page all the way to the end. Does your mother's copy include the not-originally-published last chapter?