![]() ![]() ![]() Jo panics, fearing that Bhaer might accidentally come across one of her drafts. Bhaer crumples the paper up and tosses it into the fire, annoyed that such “bad trash” is published at all. At the same time, Jo falls in love with the high-minded and serious Professor Bhaer, whom she one day observes reading a newspaper: “Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villain, and a viper.” Jo thinks this horrifying tableau might, in fact, be an illustration for one of her own grisly stories. In Louisa May Alcott’s much beloved novel Little Women (1868), Jo March earns extra money writing low-brow sensational stories, or “blood and thunder tales,” as Alcott calls them. Wounded soldiers resting with a nurse, Civil War, circa 1864 ![]()
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