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Oh yes Marmee, loved being reminded of her!
I feel as if I have some wonderful fictional mothers and fathers right at my fingertips and can’t think of them right now! But I am thinking of some terrible nonfiction ones :). The mother in The Glass Castle for one. The stepmother in The Chinese Cinderella. If I stop thinking of those horrible real ones maybe I can start to remember the wonderful fictional ones.
Stepmothers everywhere get a bad press – stepmother in Hansel and Gretal (and the Dad should be ashamed of himself). Maybe it’s just that the wicked characters are more memorable…
The Grimm Brothers really hated stepmothers!
Wicked are more memorable, but also maybe writers have more fun writing them!
“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents…” love that book!
This does make me want to immediately read ‘Little Women’ again…and buy copies for all of my granddaughters…! Lovely
It’s a wonderful book isn’t it – Amy’s “Valley of humiliation” at school sticks in my mind but I can’t remember what she did, Beth’s illness, Meg’s good sense and Jo…did so much want to be Jo.