Louisa May Alcott cared deeply about the rearing of children, about high standards and role models, about morals and a robust work ethic. She deplored the rough, ill-grammared boys of Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: "If Mr. Clemmons cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had best stop writing for them."
Began the second part of Little Women, "Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only end and aim of woman's life. I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone."
~Louisa May Alcott
