Aunt March died, leaving Plumfield to Jo. On her invitation, Professor Bhaer arrived at the Marches' home and stayed for two weeks. They had an argument and when Jo learned that Beth’s health had seriously deteriorated, she left New York and devoted her time to the care of her dying sister. For extra money, Jo wrote stories without a moral, which disappointed him.
She took German lessons with Professor Friedrich Bhaer, who lived in the house. Jo decided she needed a break, and spent six months with a friend of her mother in New York City, serving as governess for her two children. Laurie proposed marriage to her and she turned him down. Sensing his feelings, Jo confided in her mother, telling her that she loved Laurie but as she would love a brother and that she could not love him romantically. Jo nicknamed him Teddy and he would sometimes call her "my fellow." While Laurie studied at college, Jo kept working on her writing.ĭuring that time, Laurie realized that he had fallen in love with Jo. The sisters made good friends with their neighbour, Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence. When her father falls ill, Jo sells her hair, her 'only pride', than beg her aunt for money for her mother's ticket to Washington, so she could go visit her husband. Jo has to assist her rich elderly great-aunt - Aunt March. The March girls' father is acting in the army as a pastor and the older sisters are working to make some extra money to support the family. At the beginning of 'Little Women', the family is experiencing temporary financial difficulties during the American Civil War. Jo was the second oldest daughter of the March Family. At the start of the book she wishes to become a famous writer at the end, she appears quite happy with her “boy’s school”. If she was at a difficult or despairing moment in her books, it was “plucked wholly off, and cast upon the floor”. When she was in different moods/states of the story, it was at different angles. Jo had a 'scribbling suit', which consisted of a large black pinafore to absorb ink stains and a small black cap with a grey feather. The tiny kitchen, which was inhabited by many manuscripts, books, and rats (who nibbled her pages and tasted her pencils), was also a desk where she could be found when in a 'vortex'.
The attic at Orchard House was a favourite haunt of hers. Jo loved to read, and would spend hours doing so, reading books such as The Heir of Radcliffe, over which she ate apples and cried.
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She often wished she 'was a boy', and as consolation enjoyed whistling, using slang and ruffling up her clothes (which were a great trial to her, especially when she grew old enough to wear long skirts) - all symbols of masculinity at the time.