Synopsis

Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with his Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Louisa May Alcott has created some of the most memorable fictional characters in her Little Women, so much so that they seem real. I know they are based upon her childhood, and one day I will have to get a biography to find out where non-fiction ends and fiction begins.

This is a small collection of plays that Jo and Meg wrote and all of the girls acted out. I wish they would have used the language of their day instead of the old English, but I will have to give them credit for having great imaginations. These girls were never bored. Because they are such idealists, these plays are far from believable, and I suppose it is the way they were brought up as well as the time. They were great romantics and loved drama, and I have to wonder if they were around today would they have ended up in Hollywood. Yet again, they are fictional so this is a moot point.

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