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Jack and Jill: A Village Story

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469:“Mamma” while her biological mother’s presence fades. Mrs. Minot wants her boys to learn at home because she wants their studies to focus on physical and intellectual balance. Through this, Alcott opines that education and physical activity should go together. Mrs. Minot emphasizes good health in her sons because Frank prefers studying to physical activity and Jack’s newly-recovered leg needs exercise. Eventually studying less helps Frank sleep better at night. As part of her educational system for the children, Mrs. Minot helps them with in-depth study and discourages memorization. Molly, Merry, and Jill have a difficult time memorizing historical facts, so Mrs. Minot tells them stories from history while they sew. During the lessons, they make personal connections with what they learn. English professor Cathlin Davis points out Mrs. Minot’s previous work as a schoolteacher many years prior, and claims that Mrs. Minot teaches the children what they need at the time. Mrs. Minot's educational methods are based on Alcott's ideas of education, which were influenced by 245:
families will live together in the Minots' house until the children recover. Jack and Jill decide to keep up with their lessons at home so they do not fall behind in school. One day Jill decides to read a letter lying near the writing table; the letter says she will likely never recover. Mrs. Minot finds out that Jill read the letter but lets her choose whether or not to confess. That afternoon, Merry asks her parents for permission to decorate her room and promises to do her chores in return; the decorations are ruined when her room accidentally catches on fire. Meanwhile, Molly decides that she will tidy her house and keep her little brother clean and well-dressed, which turns out to be difficult. Molly's widowed father and the housekeeper do little to take care of the children.
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of being injured, does not transform her into a Victorian feminist, but instead prepares her for the socially accepted role of females. Both Mrs. Pecq and Mrs. Minot desire this for her. Jack’s injury is feminizing, claims Hines, because he cannot participate in his athletics and decides to imitate his mother’s patience. Jack attempts to preserve his masculinity with the village boys by pretending he is not interested in a kitten, which Alcott described as “girlish”. Another boy teases him for writing a tender letter to Jill. Mrs. Minot teaches Jack about his and Jill’s socially accepted gender roles, explaining that Jack should submit less to Jill and she more to him. Alcott challenges these roles with Jack’s gentleness and Jill’s strong will.
241:. Jill and her mother are poor, whilst Jack's family are better off. One afternoon in winter, Jack and Jill sled with their friends. After being told she would not be brave enough to sled on a dangerous hill, Jill wants to do it. Jack suggests they sled across the pond instead, but Jill insists she will go down the hill. She goes down the hill and crashes but is not hurt. Jack decides to take Jill down the hill himself. After a couple runs, they crash, and Jack breaks his leg while Jill hurts her back. Mrs. Pecq fears Jill may be crippled for life but does not tell her. To help Jill cheer up, Mrs. Pecq suggests that Jill and her friends, Molly and Merry, begin improving their homes; they call this project their "missions". 510:: Founded on Portions of the Story by Louisa May Alcott”. Smith uses the Christmas celebration as the basis of the play. It begins with Mrs. Minot, Mrs. Pecq, and Ralph finishing decorating the Bird Room. Jack enters the room and discovers the surprise, then invites Jill to join the Minots' Christmas party. A few of Jack's friends visit and they all write a letter to Jill. Later, they help her as she leaves her house to attend the Christmas party. Jill sees the Bird Room and expresses appreciation. Afterward, Jack and Jill quarrel. When more of their friends come, Santa Claus arrives and passes out their presents. The play ends with the cast singing a Christmas song. 1838: 460:
deals with her injury. Mrs. Minot tells Jill about an invalid, Lucinda Snow, to give her an example of how she should approach her injury. Mrs. Pecq’s suggestion that Jill, Merry, and Molly become missionaries in their homes furthers Jill’s transformation from masculinity to femininity. The girls, whose missions focus on domestic and self improvements, are characterized as both “savages” and “missionaries”. Through this project, Jill’s character is reformed, and not until this happens does she begin to recover. West views Jill’s eventual marriage to Jack as a reward for her transformation.
283:, which allows her to sit up and walk a little. Meanwhile, Merry' and Molly's housekeeping improves and Jack's friend Ed Devlin becomes sick and dies. Jill and the Minots spend the summer at Pebbly Beach, where they make many friends and Jill's health improves. Later Molly and her brother visit and join in a celebration at Pebbly Beach. When the families come back, Mrs. Minot decides that the children should take a couple years' break from school and tells Frank to delay 27: 1672: 1686: 1636: 2070: 271:
Lodge, which is a boys' club that Frank and Jack attend, decides to befriend a troublemaker named Bob in hopes of having a good influence on him. Later, Jack wants to earn some money but refuses to tell anyone why. At Jill's suggestion, he sells cards. The teacher, Mr. Acton, punishes Jack because he
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As Christmas approaches, Mrs. Minot tasks Jack and Jill with making decorations for the tree. Jill and Mrs. Pecq join the Minots on Christmas, and Jill is presented with the Bird Room, decorated with paper birds, where she and Jack can spend time together. Mrs. Minot and Mrs. Pecq reveal that the two
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Jill is at the head of her class, but struggles with spelling and grammar; Jack dislikes school but has good spelling and grammar. Hines claims this is demonstrative of their differing social statuses. Jill’s adoption into the Minot family raises her social status, and she starts calling Mrs. Minot
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According to children's literature professor and author Kristina West, “isability figures as education” for the novel’s characters. Jill’s injury gives her the opportunity to develop into a more tame, patient, and obedient girl. Jill does not personally know any disabled adults to guide her as she
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develop into socially acceptable women of the time. She and author Ruth K. MacDonald view Jill’s injury as a punishment for seeking equality with the village boys, as Jack and his male friends have successfully gone down the hill in the past without injury. Jill’s eventual taming, which is a result
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in time for the delivery, but reluctantly decided against it because she knew she would be seasick and did not want May to have to take care of her. She wrote, “I know I shall wish I had gone; it is my luck.” Instead, she stayed at the Bellevue Hotel to finish writing
276:. At home, Mrs. Minot unsuccessfully tries to find out why Jack was there. Jill writes a letter to Bob and finds out that he owed someone money, which Jack paid for him in the shop's back room. Told what happened, Mr. Acton publicly excuses Jack from blame. 164:. When Dodge expressed satisfaction after reading them, an encouraged Alcott wrote four more chapters. Writing one chapter of the book every day, Alcott wrote in her journal that she “peg away very slowly”. In writing, Alcott drew upon the lives of local 443:" because of her dark hair and rosy cheeks. Though Jill is the same race as the other characters in the novel, Hines says, she is racially set apart through this description. Jack, who is blonde, is representative of the Victorian ideal of a fair 375:
criticized Alcott's inclusion of romance, noting that Alcott saw it as "drawing the picture of a natural society of boys and girls who are soon to be young men and young women." In reference to the focus on injured children,
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and again in 1907 with illustrations by Frederick Dielman and an anonymous artist. Little, Brown and Company also published a 1928 edition with color illustrations, including some by
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in most of the story. Hines sees an inequality between the children because Jack is wealthy, male, and characterized as having more morality than Jill. Alcott describes Jill as a "
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In February Jack is well enough to attend school. Jill amuses herself by helping her drama club prepare for a performance with the village boys. Jill is chosen to play the part of
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is the story of two friends named Jack and Janey and tells of the aftermath of a serious sledding accident. After publication, the novel received reviews comparing it to
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Almost four months after the sledding accident, Mrs. Minot tells Jack, Frank, and Jill that Jill and Mrs. Pecq are to live with them permanently. Jill is also given a
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noted that the days in the book were long and the "mothers at least twenty times as long-suffering" as what the editors were familiar with.
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children, explaining that “Jack and Jill are right out of our own little circle”. Several children wanted to be included in the story.
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when she exhibits masculine traits. Jill’s increased paleness is demonstrative of her transformation from masculinity to femininity.
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Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are best friends who are neighbors. Because of their friendship, Janey gets the nickname of Jill, to mimic
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and praising its portrayal of reality, while other reviews criticized its romance. Later, parts of the book were adapted into a
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magazine December 1879-October 1880 and belongs to the Little Women Series. Parts of it were written during the death of
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attraction. Likewise, the accident “resets” Jack and Jill’s friendship, making it heterosexual when it was initially
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in 1880 with four illustrations that were included in the serialized edition, one of which is attributed to
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called it "one of the brightest" of her "recent efforts", including "much vivacity and strength". The
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as "the best has written for years" and said that some readers thought it as good as or better than
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rhymes. Later, Jack's older brother Frank and a friend visit the trainyard and drive an unsupervised
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St. Nicholas and Mary Mapes Dodge: The Legacy of a Children's Magazine Editor, 1873-1905
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from December 1879 to October 1880. The book was first published in novel format by the
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During Jack’s and Jill’s recoveries, the village children shift from having largely
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for a year. Mrs. Minot teaches Jill, Molly, and Merry at home. Mrs. Hammond, a
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described it as "a fairly good book for juvenile readers" but not as good as
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was due to deliver her child at the end of 1879. Alcott wanted to see May in
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was published as a Rainbow Classic with four illustrations by Nettie Weber.
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was seen in the back room of a sweet shop; the back room has alcohol and a
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emphasize Alcott's portrayals of gender, disability, and education.
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Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child: A Critical Theory Approach
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Author and Louisa May Alcott scholar Gregory Eiselein argues that
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art
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published the book in 1905 with eight illustrations by
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demonstrates “conformity and submission” rather than
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Index


Louisa May Alcott
Children's
Roberts Brothers
Louisa May Alcott
St. Nicholas
May Nieriker
New England
Little Women
Christmas
Mary Mapes Dodge
Concord
May Nieriker
Paris
St. Nicholas
Roberts Brothers
Frederick Dielman
Little, Brown and Company
Harriet Roosevelt Richards
Bertha Miller
the nursery rhyme
Sleeping Beauty
George Washington
Mother Goose
steam engine
Temperance
billiard table
back brace
college
physician

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