{ "schemaVersion": 1, "slug": "little-women-pg37106", "title": "Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy", "author": "Louisa May Alcott and Frank T. Merrill", "language": "en", "spoilers": true, "characters": [ { "name": "The poor boy invited to the garden", "aliases": [ "poor boy" ], "description": "A poor boy who admires a beautiful garden and is invited into it by a little girl friend." }, { "name": "The little girl friend", "aliases": [ "little girl" ], "description": "A girl who invites the poor boy into the beautiful garden she admires." }, { "name": "Marjorie", "aliases": [ "young heroine" ], "description": "A girl whose fairy tale comes true, bringing Industry, Cheerfulness, and Love into her life." }, { "name": "Industry", "aliases": [], "description": "A good fairy who enters Marjorie’s life when her fairy tale comes true." }, { "name": "Cheerfulness", "aliases": [], "description": "A good fairy who enters Marjorie’s life when her fairy tale comes true." }, { "name": "Love", "aliases": [], "description": "A good fairy who enters Marjorie’s life when her fairy tale comes true." }, { "name": "Ethel", "aliases": [ "frivolous Ethel" ], "description": "One of two girls traveling through Europe. She learns the value of culture and simple dignity from her companion." }, { "name": "Ethel’s companion", "aliases": [ "her companion" ], "description": "A girl traveling through Europe with Ethel, whose culture and simple dignity influence her." }, { "name": "The spoiled child at Christmas", "aliases": [ "spoiled child" ], "description": "A rather spoiled child who discovers real enjoyment of Christmas by making others happy." }, { "name": "The young heroine of The Candy Country", "aliases": [ "young heroine" ], "description": "A girl who visits Candy-land and eventually becomes content to return to Bread-land." }, { "name": "Little Button Rose", "aliases": [ "bright, vivacious child" ], "description": "A lively child who visits her maiden aunts and positively influences the narrow-minded people around her." }, { "name": "The New Hampshire farmer’s daughter", "aliases": [ "farmer's daughter" ], "description": "A daughter of a New Hampshire farmer who enjoys writing verses." }, { "name": "The first doll", "aliases": [ "one of the two dolls" ], "description": "One of two dolls whose travels are recounted in The Dolls’ Journey." }, { "name": "The second doll", "aliases": [ "one of the two dolls" ], "description": "One of two dolls whose travels are recounted in The Dolls’ Journey." }, { "name": "Aunt Wee", "aliases": [ "Aunt Wee" ], "description": "A woman who helps Daisy become cheerful by teaching her to appreciate the natural world." }, { "name": "Daisy", "aliases": [ "girl changed by Aunt Wee" ], "description": "A previously unlisted girl who is changed from petulant to cheerful by Aunt Wee’s lessons about nature. She is distinct from Meg and John Brooke’s daughter, who is also called Daisy." }, { "name": "The little women and little men in the plays", "aliases": [ "eight or ten little people" ], "description": "Unnamed child performers for whom the two adapted plays are written; the text does not identify individual roles." }, { "name": "Laurie Laurence", "aliases": [ "Laurie", "Theodore Laurence", "the Laurence boy", "Teddy", "that young giant", "young Laurence", "Lazy Laurence", "Telemachus" ], "description": "Amy’s husband and Mr. Laurence’s grandson, Laurie plans to enter business and use his wealth to help people in need, especially struggling young artists and ambitious girls. He supports Jo and Professor Bhaer’s future marriage and remains deeply close to Amy and his grandfather." }, { "name": "Amy March", "aliases": [ "Amy", "Little Raphael", "My lady", "Raphaella", "Diana", "Mrs. Laurence", "Madame Récamier" ], "description": "The youngest March sister and Laurie’s wife, Amy hopes to use their wealth to help others, particularly girls pursuing artistic ambitions. She is devoted to Laurie and is anxious about the health of their frail young daughter." }, { "name": "Mrs. March", "aliases": [ "Marmee", "mother", "grandma" ], "description": "The March sisters’ warm, generous mother, who supports Jo’s plan to open a school and delights in her family’s happiness. She is a devoted grandmother to Meg’s children and Jo’s children." }, { "name": "Josephine March", "aliases": [ "Jo", "Miss Josephine", "Miss Jo", "Doctor Jo", "Sister Jo", "Dodo", "Mrs. Bhaer", "Mother Bhaer", "Professorin" ], "description": "The second March sister, now married to Professor Bhaer, with whom she opens a loving, homelike school for boys at Plumfield. She is a devoted mother and teacher, and finds contentment in family life while retaining hopes of writing a good book." }, { "name": "Mr. March", "aliases": [ "father", "papa", "grandpa", "dranpa" ], "description": "The March sisters’ father, a minister and former army chaplain. He teaches his grandson Demi and later helps Professor Bhaer at Plumfield." }, { "name": "Professor Bhaer", "aliases": [ "Mr. Bhaer", "Old Fritz", "Lager Beer", "Ursa Major", "Friedrich Bhaer", "Fritz", "Father Bhaer", "the Professor", "the bear-man" ], "description": "A learned, kind German teacher who marries Jo after they confess their love. He teaches at their school at Plumfield, helps raise and educate his nephews Franz and Emil, and is a warm presence in the lives of the March family’s children." }, { "name": "Meg March", "aliases": [ "Meg", "Miss March", "Miss Margaret", "Daisy", "Mrs. John Brooke", "Mrs. Brooke" ], "description": "The eldest March sister, John Brooke’s wife, and mother of twins Demi and Daisy. She takes part in family life at Plumfield and cherishes her children." }, { "name": "Demi", "aliases": [ "John Laurence", "Jack", "young Brooke", "the boy", "John Brooke and Meg's son" ], "description": "Meg and John’s son and Daisy’s twin brother, an inquisitive, mechanically minded child who enjoys philosophical conversations with his grandfather. He is playful and protective of Daisy." }, { "name": "Laurie's grandfather", "aliases": [ "Mr. Laurence", "old Mr. Laurence", "Laurie's grandfather", "James Laurence", "grandpa", "Mr. Laurence" ], "description": "Laurie’s wealthy grandfather, who supports the Bhaers’ school by helping them take in boys in need. He is a close and affectionate member of Laurie and Amy’s family." }, { "name": "Franz", "aliases": [ "Franz" ], "description": "Professor Bhaer’s orphaned nephew, whom he raises and educates in accordance with his late sister’s wishes. Franz grows into a tall young man and sings with the Plumfield boys." }, { "name": "Emil", "aliases": [ "Emil" ], "description": "Professor Bhaer’s orphaned nephew, whom he raises and educates in accordance with his late sister’s wishes. Emil sings with the Plumfield boys." }, { "name": "Tina", "aliases": [ "Tina" ], "description": "Professor Bhaer’s little pupil, the daughter of a French laundry worker. Bhaer buys her a dress and cares for her and her family." }, { "name": "The laundry woman", "aliases": [ "Frenchwoman in the laundry", "Tina's mother" ], "description": "A Frenchwoman who works in the laundry and is Tina’s mother. Professor Bhaer buys her a warm shawl because she is poor and sick and her husband is a burden to her." }, { "name": "Aunt March", "aliases": [ "Aunt March" ], "description": "The March sisters’ sharp-tongued elderly relative, who dies and leaves Plumfield to Jo. Jo adopts her poodle in her memory." }, { "name": "Aunt March's poodle", "aliases": [ "fat poodle", "Mop", "the lap-dog", "the dog" ], "description": "Aunt March’s fat lap dog, whom Jo adopts after Aunt March’s death." }, { "name": "Laurie's parents’ child", "aliases": [ "Laurie" ], "description": "Laurie was born in Italy to Mr. Laurence’s son and an Italian musician; both his parents died when he was a little child, and his grandfather took him in. As an adult he becomes a steady, generous businessman and a devoted husband and father." }, { "name": "Professor Bhaer's sister", "aliases": [ "his sister", "Professor Bhaer's nephews' mother" ], "description": "Professor Bhaer’s late sister, who married an American and entrusted him with raising and educating her orphaned sons, Franz and Emil. Bhaer remains committed to helping the boys before making a home with Jo." }, { "name": "Minna", "aliases": [ "Minna" ], "description": "Professor Bhaer’s late sister, whose promise to raise her sons Franz and Emil keeps him from leaving them until he can provide for their future." }, { "name": "John Brooke", "aliases": [ "Mr. Brooke", "Brooke", "Mr. Greatheart", "John", "that Cook", "this Rook", "Mr. Book", "Laurie's tutor" ], "description": "Meg’s husband and father of Demi and Daisy. He joins the family’s celebrations and plays cricket with the boys at Plumfield." }, { "name": "Rob Bhaer", "aliases": [ "Rob", "grandpa" ], "description": "Jo and Professor Bhaer’s son, named for his grandfather Mr. March. He enjoys the Plumfield apple-picking and makes a footstool for his grandmother." }, { "name": "Teddy Bhaer", "aliases": [ "Teddy", "Ted", "little Ted" ], "description": "Jo and Professor Bhaer’s younger son, a happy-go-lucky child who grows up amid the Plumfield boys. His father’s sunny temper and his mother’s lively spirit are said to show in him." }, { "name": "Amy and Laurie’s daughter", "aliases": [ "one well-beloved daughter", "little angel" ], "description": "Amy and Laurie’s frail young daughter, whose health worries her parents. Amy models a figure of her and treasures her image." }, { "name": "Tommy Bangs", "aliases": [ "Tommy" ], "description": "A Plumfield boy whose habit of smoking sweet-fern cigars under the bedclothes has set him on fire several times." }, { "name": "The boys at Plumfield", "aliases": [ "Jo's boys", "the lads", "the boys" ], "description": "The pupils at Jo and Professor Bhaer’s homelike school, including poor and rich boys, several with disabilities, and a merry little quadroon. They love their teachers and sing a song written by Jo and set to music by Laurie." }, { "name": "The merry little quadroon", "aliases": [ "little quadroon" ], "description": "A boy with a mixed-race background who could not be accepted elsewhere but is welcomed at Plumfield. He has the sweetest voice among the boys." }, { "name": "The pale boy with a crutch", "aliases": [ "pale lad" ], "description": "A Plumfield boy with a crutch who sits admiring Amy as she sketches at the apple-picking." }, { "name": "The little girls at Plumfield", "aliases": [ "little girls" ], "description": "Unnamed girls at Plumfield who hold a private tea party during the apple-picking." }, { "name": "The Plumfield guinea-pig", "aliases": [ "astonished guinea-pig" ], "description": "A guinea-pig at Plumfield that strays from its proper sphere in search of its young master and receives a toast at the apple-picking." }, { "name": "The Plumfield boys' pets", "aliases": [ "pet animals", "menagerie" ], "description": "The individual animals kept as pets in the Plumfield barn and shed; the passage refers to them collectively without identifying any particular animal." }, { "name": "The old cow at Plumfield", "aliases": [ "cow with a crumpled horn" ], "description": "A cow at Plumfield whose habit of inviting boys to come near and be tossed is recalled when the school’s pupils enjoy the grounds." }, { "name": "The first affianced March sister", "aliases": [ "the first one who is affianced" ], "description": "An unnamed March sister whom Aunt March had intended to give her pearls when she became engaged; the passage later identifies that sister as Jo through the family’s history." }, { "name": "The narrator", "aliases": [ "I", "humble historian" ], "description": "A narrator who calls themself the humble historian of the March family and recounts the later lives of the sisters and their children." }, { "name": "Beth March", "aliases": [ "Beth", "Elizabeth March", "Little Tranquillity", "Mouse" ], "description": "The gentle third March sister, who dies peacefully after a long illness. Before her death, she asks Jo to take her place in caring for their parents and assures Jo that love endures." }, { "name": "Margaret March", "aliases": [ "Meg", "Miss March", "Miss Margaret", "Daisy", "Mrs. John Brooke", "Mrs. Brooke" ], "description": "The eldest March sister, John Brooke’s wife, and mother of twins Demi and Daisy. She offers Jo her perspective on marriage and family life." }, { "name": "Fred Vaughn", "aliases": [ "Fred", "riotous twin", "old Fred" ], "description": "One of the Vaughn twins and Laurie’s English friend. He returns and proposes to Amy, but she kindly refuses him." }, { "name": "Frank Vaughn", "aliases": [ "Frank", "the lame one" ], "description": "Fred’s twin brother. His serious illness had earlier called Fred home." }, { "name": "Mrs. Carrol", "aliases": [ "Florence's mother", "cousin's mamma", "Mrs. Carrol, Florence's mamma", "Aunt Carrol" ], "description": "Amy’s aunt and Flo’s mother, traveling with them in Europe. She welcomes Laurie when he arrives to comfort Amy in Vevay and agrees to their marriage." }, { "name": "Flo", "aliases": [ "Florence" ], "description": "Amy’s cousin and Aunt Carrol’s daughter, traveling with Amy in Europe. She is with her family in Vevay when Laurie arrives." }, { "name": "The March sisters", "aliases": [ "Meg", "Jo", "Beth", "Amy" ], "description": "The four March sisters. Beth’s death leaves Jo to carry forward the family’s care and affection." }, { "name": "Hannah", "aliases": [ "old Hannah", "Hannah Brown" ], "description": "The March family’s longtime housekeeper and friend. She notices Jo’s efforts to preserve Beth’s thoughtful care of the home." }, { "name": "Mrs. Laurence's portrait", "aliases": [ "the severe and rigid young lady" ], "description": "A portrait in Professor Bhaer’s room, showing a severe-looking young woman. He kisses the picture in private; the passage does not identify the woman." }, { "name": "Mr. Scott", "aliases": [ "Scott", "Jack Scott" ], "description": "John Brooke’s friend and neighbor, who is now married and keeps house nearby. John spends evenings with him when Meg is occupied with the twins." }, { "name": "Mrs. Scott", "aliases": [], "description": "A lively, pretty young woman married to Mr. Scott. She welcomes John during his evening visits with conversation, music, chess, and supper." }, { "name": "Sallie", "aliases": [ "Sallie Gardiner", "Mrs. Ned Moffat", "Sallie Moffat" ], "description": "Meg’s friend, married to Ned Moffat. She enjoys visiting the Brookes’ cheerful home, while her own grand house feels lonely to her." }, { "name": "Ned Moffat", "aliases": [ "Ned", "my Ned" ], "description": "Sallie’s husband. The passage describes him as living in a world of his own, leaving Sallie lonely in their large home." }, { "name": "Kitty, the cook", "aliases": [ "Kitty" ], "description": "An Irish woman who works as cook for the Brookes. She takes life easily and keeps John on short rations." }, { "name": "The Russian prince", "aliases": [ "Russian prince" ], "description": "An unnamed Russian prince at the Christmas ball in Nice, who sits in a corner and talks with a heavily dressed woman." }, { "name": "The massive lady in black velvet", "aliases": [ "massive lady", "Hamlet's mother" ], "description": "An unnamed woman at the Christmas ball, dressed in black velvet with a pearl bridle under her chin. She talks with the Russian prince." }, { "name": "The Polish count", "aliases": [ "Count", "little Vladimir", "the nice little boy" ], "description": "An eighteen-year-old Polish count at the Christmas ball who dances enthusiastically with Amy after Laurie fails to claim her for the next dance." }, { "name": "The German Serene Something", "aliases": [ "Serene Teuton", "German Serene Something" ], "description": "An unnamed German titled guest at the Christmas ball, who comes mainly for supper and eats steadily." }, { "name": "Baron Rothschild's private secretary", "aliases": [ "the golden secretary", "large-nosed Jew" ], "description": "An unnamed private secretary to Baron Rothschild at the Christmas ball. He beams affably at the guests and dances energetically with a Frenchwoman." }, { "name": "Baron Rothschild", "aliases": [ "Baron Rothschild" ], "description": "A person mentioned as the employer of the private secretary attending the Christmas ball; he does not appear directly." }, { "name": "The stout Frenchman who knows the Emperor", "aliases": [ "Emperor's friend", "stout Frenchman" ], "description": "An unnamed French guest at the Christmas ball who knows the Emperor and dances exuberantly, improvising steps when he loses track of the figures." }, { "name": "Lady de Jones", "aliases": [ "Lady de Jones" ], "description": "A British matron at the Christmas ball, accompanied by her family of eight." }, { "name": "The four Misses Davis", "aliases": [ "four plain Misses Davis" ], "description": "Four unnamed young women at the Christmas ball, described as plain; Laurie escorts Amy rather than them." }, { "name": "The Davis girls", "aliases": [ "Davis girls" ], "description": "The awkward, plain young women at the Christmas ball, accompanied by their father and three maiden aunts. Amy pities them and greets them kindly." }, { "name": "The grim papa of the Davis girls", "aliases": [ "grim papa" ], "description": "An unnamed father who escorts the Davis girls at the Christmas ball." }, { "name": "The three maiden aunts of the Davis girls", "aliases": [ "three grimmer maiden aunts" ], "description": "Three unnamed maiden aunts accompanying the Davis girls at the Christmas ball." }, { "name": "The dashing Frenchwoman", "aliases": [ "Frenchwoman" ], "description": "An unnamed Frenchwoman who dances with Baron Rothschild’s private secretary, her long pink satin train trailing across the floor." }, { "name": "The Davis family", "aliases": [ "Davises" ], "description": "The Davis family at the Christmas ball, including the awkward young women, their father, and three maiden aunts." }, { "name": "The Jones family", "aliases": [ "Joneses", "little family of eight" ], "description": "Lady de Jones’s family, a group of eight at the Christmas ball." }, { "name": "Baptiste", "aliases": [ "little Baptiste" ], "description": "An unnamed young carriage attendant who accompanies Amy and Laurie on their drive to Valrosa. Laurie takes the reins, leaving Baptiste to sit and doze." }, { "name": "The shepherd", "aliases": [ "bare-legged shepherd" ], "description": "An unnamed shepherd encountered on the drive to Valrosa, who sits piping on a stone while his goats graze nearby." }, { "name": "The shepherd's goats", "aliases": [ "goats" ], "description": "The goats accompanying the shepherd on the road to Valrosa; they skip among the rocks or rest at his feet." }, { "name": "The girl riding on the donkey", "aliases": [ "pretty girl in a capaline" ], "description": "An unnamed girl seen riding between panniers of freshly cut grass on a donkey along the road to Valrosa." }, { "name": "The old woman spinning on the donkey", "aliases": [ "old woman" ], "description": "An unnamed old woman seen spinning with a distaff while riding on a donkey along the road to Valrosa." }, { "name": "The children offering flowers and oranges", "aliases": [ "brown, soft-eyed children" ], "description": "Unnamed children who run out from stone houses along the road to Valrosa to offer nosegays and oranges." }, { "name": "The monks", "aliases": [ "monks" ], "description": "Unnamed monks at a monastery along the road to Valrosa, whose chanting reaches Amy and Laurie." }, { "name": "Puck", "aliases": [ "the horse" ], "description": "A horse Laurie once tamed in front of the March sisters. Amy recalls the incident and shows Laurie a sketch she made of it." }, { "name": "Meg and Beth", "aliases": [ "Meg", "Beth" ], "description": "Amy recalls that both sisters were frightened when Laurie tamed Puck." }, { "name": "The schoolchildren who pass Beth's window", "aliases": [ "school-children" ], "description": "Unnamed children who pass Beth’s window on their way to school. Beth makes small gifts for them, and they respond with smiles and grateful notes." }, { "name": "Beth's cats", "aliases": [ "beloved pussies" ], "description": "Beth’s cherished cats, kept near her in her sickroom." }, { "name": "Jo's two little pupils", "aliases": [ "the two little girls", "the children" ], "description": "The two young girls Jo teaches and sews for at Mrs. Kirke’s boarding house; they are Kitty and Minnie Kirke. They are inconsolable when Jo leaves in June." }, { "name": "Miss Norton", "aliases": [ "Miss Norton" ], "description": "A wealthy, cultivated, kind unmarried woman at Mrs. Kirke’s boarding house. She lends Jo lace and feathers for a masquerade and introduces Jo and Professor Bhaer to literary society." }, { "name": "Mrs. Kirke", "aliases": [ "Mrs. K." ], "description": "A friend of Mrs. March who runs a boarding house in New York. She employs Jo and remembers some old brocades so Jo can attend the New Year’s masquerade." }, { "name": "Kitty Kirke", "aliases": [ "Kitty" ], "description": "One of Mrs. Kirke’s young daughters, who befriends Jo and is affectionate toward Professor Bhaer. She is among the children saddened when Jo leaves." }, { "name": "Minnie Kirke", "aliases": [ "Minnie" ], "description": "One of Mrs. Kirke’s young daughters, who is affectionate toward Professor Bhaer and joins the children’s Saturday playtimes. She is among the children saddened when Jo leaves." }, { "name": "Laurie's black-eyed observer", "aliases": [ "black-eyed young gentleman", "Laurie" ], "description": "The young man who watched Jo approach a building and offered help; he is Laurie. He graduates with honors and, after Jo refuses him, travels abroad with his grandfather; in Nice he reunites with Amy." }, { "name": "Mrs. March's mother", "aliases": [ "my good mother" ], "description": "Mrs. March’s mother, who helped her daughter struggle with and control her temper. She died when Mrs. March was a little older than Jo." }, { "name": "Beth's bird", "aliases": [ "sand-bird", "little gray-coated sand-bird", "peep" ], "description": "A small shore bird that approaches Beth on the beach and sits nearby. Its tame, contented presence comforts her." }, { "name": "The gull", "aliases": [ "gull" ], "description": "A gull Beth sees flying over the beach. Beth compares Jo to it, calling her strong, wild, and happy alone." }, { "name": "Laurie's English friend", "aliases": [ "Laurie's friend" ], "description": "An unnamed friend of Laurie’s in London and Paris, whom Mr. Laurence mentions as someone he can visit while Laurie travels more freely." }, { "name": "Mr. Dashwood", "aliases": [ "editor of the Weekly Volcano" ], "description": "Editor of the Weekly Volcano, who buys Jo’s sensation stories after requiring her to cut their moral reflections. He pays her low rates and keeps her authorship secret." }, { "name": "Mrs. Northbury", "aliases": [ "Mrs. S. L. A. N. G. Northbury" ], "description": "A writer of sensational stories whose work Jo reads in a newspaper. Mr. Dashwood tells Jo to use her as a model." }, { "name": "Jo's college acquaintance who writes melodramatic stories", "aliases": [ "studious-looking lad", "the boy", "Laurie's college friend who writes melodramatic stories" ], "description": "An unnamed lad Jo meets at a lecture, who shares a sensational story from a newspaper and says its writer earns a good living. His story helps prompt Jo to try sensational writing." }, { "name": "The three gentlemen in Mr. Dashwood's office", "aliases": [ "three gentlemen" ], "description": "Unnamed men in Mr. Dashwood’s office when Jo first brings him a story. They exchange knowing glances and laugh at Jo’s claim that she is delivering it for a friend." }, { "name": "The gentleman who offers to buy Jo's children's story", "aliases": [ "worthy gentleman" ], "description": "An unnamed man who offers to buy a story Jo writes for children, provided it promotes his particular religious belief. Jo refuses to portray children according to his demands." }, { "name": "The philosophers at the symposium", "aliases": [ "philosophers", "wise gentlemen" ], "description": "Unnamed guests at a literary gathering who argue that reason and intellect should replace traditional religious beliefs. Professor Bhaer challenges their views in Jo’s hearing." }, { "name": "The poet at the symposium", "aliases": [ "poet" ], "description": "An unnamed celebrated poet at the literary gathering Miss Norton takes Jo and Professor Bhaer to. Jo sees him eating heartily and feels her romantic image of genius falter." }, { "name": "The great novelist at the symposium", "aliases": [ "great novelist" ], "description": "An unnamed celebrated novelist at the literary gathering, observed by Jo moving repeatedly between two decanters." }, { "name": "The famous divine at the symposium", "aliases": [ "famous divine" ], "description": "An unnamed celebrated religious speaker at the literary gathering, whom Jo sees openly flirting." }, { "name": "The Madame de Staël at the symposium", "aliases": [ "Madame de Staëls of the age" ], "description": "An unnamed celebrated woman at the literary gathering, flirting with the famous divine and glaring at another woman who satirizes her." }, { "name": "The Corinne at the symposium", "aliases": [ "another Corinne" ], "description": "An unnamed celebrated woman at the literary gathering, who amiably satirizes the woman Jo compares to a Madame de Staël." }, { "name": "The philosopher at the symposium", "aliases": [ "profound philosopher" ], "description": "An unnamed celebrated philosopher at the literary gathering, whom the women compete to engage; he drinks tea and appears to doze." }, { "name": "The scientific celebrities at the symposium", "aliases": [ "scientific celebrities" ], "description": "Unnamed celebrated scientists at the literary gathering, who gossip about art while eating oysters and ices." }, { "name": "The young musician at the symposium", "aliases": [ "young musician", "second Orpheus" ], "description": "An unnamed young musician who is charming the city with his music. At the literary gathering he talks about horses." }, { "name": "The British nobleman at the symposium", "aliases": [ "specimen of the British nobility" ], "description": "An unnamed British nobleman at the literary gathering, described as the most ordinary man present." }, { "name": "Amy's Aunt Carrol", "aliases": [ "Aunt Carrol" ], "description": "A relative of the March sisters who invites Amy to travel abroad. She travels with Amy and Flo and welcomes Laurie to their Christmas party in Nice." }, { "name": "Meg and John Brooke's children", "aliases": [ "the babies", "Daisy and Demi" ], "description": "Meg and John Brooke’s twin children. Their grandmother stays home with them rather than leaving for the seashore." }, { "name": "The French mother on the promenade", "aliases": [ "French mamma" ], "description": "An unnamed French woman who hurries her daughter away after seeing Amy greet Laurie freely in the street, fearing the encounter will corrupt the girl." }, { "name": "The French mother's daughter", "aliases": [ "her daughter" ], "description": "An unnamed girl whose mother hurries her away after she might see Amy greet Laurie on the promenade." }, { "name": "The celebrity poet at the symposium", "aliases": [ "poet" ], "description": "An unnamed celebrated poet at the literary gathering Miss Norton takes Jo and Professor Bhaer to. Jo sees him eating heartily and feels her romantic image of genius falter." }, { "name": "May Chester", "aliases": [ "May" ], "description": "Mrs. Chester’s daughter, who was jealous of Amy’s popularity and work at the fair. After learning that Amy generously gave up her place, May makes sure Amy’s artwork is shown to suitable buyers and apologizes with an affectionate kiss." }, { "name": "The Chester sisters", "aliases": [ "Misses Chester", "the Chester girls", "her girls" ], "description": "Mrs. Chester’s daughters, who take over the prominent art table at the fair after Amy is asked to give it up." }, { "name": "Little Parker", "aliases": [ "Parker", "the little Parker" ], "description": "An unnamed young man infatuated with Amy, who speaks in verse at the fair. Laurie teasingly calls him a small boy and escorts him away." }, { "name": "Uncle Carrol", "aliases": [ "Uncle Carrol", "uncle" ], "description": "A relative who travels abroad with Aunt Carrol and Amy. In Amy’s letters he is described as practical and not fluent in French." }, { "name": "Grace Vaughn", "aliases": [ "Grace" ], "description": "The young Vaughn sister and a friend of Amy’s. Amy hopes to meet her again in Rome." }, { "name": "Kate Vaughn", "aliases": [ "Miss Kate", "Kate" ], "description": "A Vaughn sister and a friend of Amy’s. She once said Fred ought to marry soon." }, { "name": "The little servant girl", "aliases": [ "little servant" ], "description": "An unnamed young servant at Mrs. Kirke’s boarding house, seen carrying a heavy hod of coal up the stairs before Professor Bhaer kindly takes it from her." }, { "name": "The inquisitive deaf old gentleman", "aliases": [ "deaf old gentleman" ], "description": "An unnamed, inquisitive diner at Mrs. Kirke’s boarding house who asks Professor Bhaer questions." }, { "name": "The Frenchman at dinner", "aliases": [ "Frenchman" ], "description": "An unnamed diner at Mrs. Kirke’s boarding house who talks philosophy with Professor Bhaer." }, { "name": "The two young ladies studying German", "aliases": [ "two young ladies" ], "description": "Unnamed students of Professor Bhaer who visit for German lessons; one behaves coquettishly and the other speaks with an awkward accent." }, { "name": "The inquisitive gentleman's fellow diner", "aliases": [ "the other" ], "description": "An unnamed diner at Mrs. Kirke’s table, seated beside the inquisitive deaf old gentleman and Professor Bhaer." }, { "name": "The young men at Mrs. Kirke's boarding house", "aliases": [ "young men" ], "description": "Unnamed boarders who make jokes about Professor Bhaer and dismiss Jo as a governess when they see her at dinner." }, { "name": "The young couple at Mrs. Kirke's boarding house", "aliases": [ "young couples" ], "description": "Unnamed boarders at Mrs. Kirke’s house, described by Jo as absorbed in one another." }, { "name": "The Irish mother on Jo's train", "aliases": [ "Irish lady" ], "description": "An unnamed Irish woman traveling with four small children on Jo’s train; their noisy crying distracts Jo from her sadness at leaving home." }, { "name": "The Irish mother's children", "aliases": [ "four small children" ], "description": "Four unnamed children traveling with their mother on Jo’s train. They cry loudly, and Jo distracts herself by dropping gingerbread nuts when they open their mouths." }, { "name": "The little servant girl's mother", "aliases": [ "his mother" ], "description": "Professor Bhaer’s mother, whom an unnamed servant once nursed; he now supports the nurse. Laurie mentions this as an example of his quiet generosity." }, { "name": "The Prince of Wales", "aliases": [ "Duke of Devonshire" ], "description": "Amy mentions the Duke of Devonshire as living near Hyde Park." }, { "name": "Duke of Wellington", "aliases": [ "Duke of Wellington" ], "description": "Amy mentions his house as being near Hyde Park." }, { "name": "Robert Lennox", "aliases": [ "Mr. Lennox", "Lennox" ], "description": "A young man Amy meets aboard ship who leaves at Queenstown. He arranges a bouquet for Amy through his friend Ward and gives her his compliments." }, { "name": "Ward", "aliases": [ "his friend Ward" ], "description": "Robert Lennox’s friend, who travels aboard ship and orders a bouquet for Amy at Lennox’s request." }, { "name": "The cab driver", "aliases": [ "hansom-cab driver", "the man" ], "description": "An unnamed driver who takes Amy and Flo through London in a hansom cab. He responds to Amy’s instructions through a small roof door." }, { "name": "Fred and Frank's father", "aliases": [ "the old gentleman", "Fred's father" ], "description": "The father of the Vaughn twins, who has reportedly asked Fred to return home when Frank becomes very ill. Amy believes he had asked Fred to postpone proposing to her because he feared a foreign daughter-in-law." }, { "name": "The Austrian officer", "aliases": [ "Austrian officer" ], "description": "An unnamed officer who stares at Amy and makes a remark about her beauty to a companion, provoking Fred’s jealousy." }, { "name": "The rakish-looking baron", "aliases": [ "baron" ], "description": "An unnamed baron dining with an Austrian officer when they remark on Amy’s appearance." }, { "name": "Mrs. Kirke's French guest", "aliases": [ "Frenchman" ], "description": "An unnamed French diner at Mrs. Kirke’s boarding house who talks philosophy with Professor Bhaer." }, { "name": "Professor Bhaer's cat", "aliases": [ "the cat" ], "description": "A cat in Professor Bhaer’s room that greets him like an old friend." }, { "name": "Professor Bhaer's tailless bird", "aliases": [ "ragged bird" ], "description": "A small, ragged bird without a tail that chirps in Professor Bhaer’s room." }, { "name": "Professor Bhaer's white mice", "aliases": [ "white mice" ], "description": "White mice kept in a box in Professor Bhaer’s room." }, { "name": "Professor Bhaer's little pupils", "aliases": [ "two small boys" ], "description": "Franz and Emil, Professor Bhaer’s orphan nephews, who play with him and Tina on Saturday afternoons." }, { "name": "Amy's European travel companions", "aliases": [ "Aunt and Flo" ], "description": "Aunt Carrol and her daughter Flo, who travel with Amy through Europe." }, { "name": "The students from Bonn", "aliases": [ "students from Bonn" ], "description": "Unnamed German students Fred meets aboard the Rhine boat. They serenade Amy and Flo at Coblentz." }, { "name": "The Duke of Devonshire", "aliases": [ "Duke of Devonshire" ], "description": "Amy mentions him as living near Hyde Park." }, { "name": "The Duke of Wellington", "aliases": [ "Duke of Wellington" ], "description": "Amy mentions that his house is not far from Hyde Park." }, { "name": "The Emperor of the French", "aliases": [ "the emperor" ], "description": "Amy sees him in Paris and describes him as ugly and hard-looking." }, { "name": "The Empress of the French", "aliases": [ "the empress" ], "description": "Amy sees her in Paris and describes her as pale and pretty, though dressed in colors Amy dislikes." }, { "name": "Little Nap.", "aliases": [ "the emperor's son" ], "description": "The emperor’s handsome young son, whom Amy sees riding in a four-horse carriage and greeting onlookers." }, { "name": "Mr. Bhaer's young scholar", "aliases": [ "new scholar", "the girl" ], "description": "An unnamed girl taking German lessons from Professor Bhaer. Jo overhears a lesson and describes the girl as very slow to understand." }, { "name": "The man who carries coal", "aliases": [ "gentleman with a foreign accent" ], "description": "Professor Bhaer, who takes a heavy coal hod from a young servant girl and carries it upstairs for her." }, { "name": "Mr. Allen", "aliases": [ "the publisher" ], "description": "The publisher who offers to buy Jo’s novel on condition that she shorten it and remove parts she particularly admires." }, { "name": "Mrs. Cornelius", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Cornelius" ], "description": "A woman whose receipt book Meg consults while learning to cook; Meg also asks her for advice about making currant jelly." }, { "name": "Lotty", "aliases": [ "Lottchen", "Mrs. Brooke's assistant" ], "description": "Mrs. Hummel’s daughter, who helps Meg in her household. She carries Meg’s failed cooking to the Hummels and reports what John and his guest did while Meg was away." }, { "name": "Mrs. Hummel", "aliases": [ "Poor woman", "poor mother", "poor woman" ], "description": "An impoverished mother whose family the Marches help. Her children receive Meg’s failed cooking." }, { "name": "Mrs. Moffat", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Moffat" ], "description": "Sallie’s mother, who willingly buys back the violet silk dress Meg regrets purchasing and does so without making it a gift." }, { "name": "Mrs. Chester", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Chester" ], "description": "A society woman organizing an elegant fair. She removes Amy from the art table after a rumor that the March girls mocked her daughter May." }, { "name": "Mr. Tudor", "aliases": [ "Tudor" ], "description": "A young man who calls at the same house as Amy during her visits and later dances with her. Jo dislikes him, saying he is conceited, disrespectful to his family, and a poor acquaintance." }, { "name": "Mr. Tudor's uncle", "aliases": [ "Mr. Tudor's uncle" ], "description": "An unnamed relative of Mr. Tudor who married an English lady related to a British lord." }, { "name": "Mr. Tudor's uncle's English wife", "aliases": [ "English lady" ], "description": "Mr. Tudor’s uncle’s wife, whose family connection to a British lord leads Amy to regard the Tudors with respect." }, { "name": "Mrs. Lamb", "aliases": [ "mamma" ], "description": "The mother of the Lamb family. She occupies Amy during a call while Jo entertains the young people, and smiles at Jo’s affectionate rapport with her children." }, { "name": "Miss Lamb", "aliases": [ "elder Miss Lamb" ], "description": "A young woman in the Lamb family who compliments Jo’s writing during a call." }, { "name": "Young Mr. Lamb", "aliases": [ "Mr. Lamb" ], "description": "A young man in the Lamb family who admires Amy’s riding after hearing Jo tell the story." }, { "name": "Tommy Chamberlain", "aliases": [ "Tommy" ], "description": "A poor, shy, clever young man whose father keeps a grocery store. Jo likes and respects him, and treats him warmly." }, { "name": "Polly", "aliases": [ "Aunt March's parrot", "the parrot" ], "description": "Aunt March’s talkative parrot, who teases Jo during a visit and helps bring it to an end." }, { "name": "Laurie's mother", "aliases": [ "Italian lady", "musician" ], "description": "Laurie’s Italian mother, a good, lovely, accomplished musician whom Mr. Laurence disapproved of. She died when Laurie was a little child." }, { "name": "Annie Moffat", "aliases": [ "Annie" ], "description": "A friend of Sallie who hosted Meg for a fortnight. She is now married to Ned Moffat." }, { "name": "Laurie's housemaid", "aliases": [ "housemaid" ], "description": "An unnamed maid at the Laurence house who told Jo that Laurie and his grandfather had quarrelled." }, { "name": "Aunt March's daughter", "aliases": [ "her one little daughter" ], "description": "Aunt March’s little daughter, who died young; her baby bracelets are kept among Aunt March’s possessions." }, { "name": "Amy's cousin Florence", "aliases": [ "Florence" ], "description": "Amy’s cousin, whose clothes Amy has to wear. Aunt March arranges for Florence’s mother to buy and send linen as a wedding gift for Meg." }, { "name": "Laurie's stable-man", "aliases": [ "stable-man" ], "description": "An unnamed stable worker whom Laurie once quarrelled with over the care of Laurie’s horse." }, { "name": "Laurie's dogs", "aliases": [ "one of his dogs" ], "description": "Laurie’s dogs, mentioned when he once told the household that one might be going mad." }, { "name": "Laurie's horse", "aliases": [ "his horse" ], "description": "Laurie’s horse, whose care once prompted an argument between Laurie and the stable-man." }, { "name": "Mrs. March's servant", "aliases": [ "the cook" ], "description": "An unnamed cook employed by the March household, who leaves bread to rise during the girls’ household experiment." }, { "name": "Sallie's six servants", "aliases": [ "four servants", "four maids" ], "description": "Unnamed servants in Sallie and Ned Moffat’s household; the text says their fine establishment employs several maids." }, { "name": "Mrs. Gummidge's sweetheart", "aliases": [ "her sweetheart" ], "description": "An unnamed man in a figure of speech Laurie uses about Jo, who supposedly had cold water thrown on him by Mrs. Gummidge." }, { "name": "Laurie's friend Henshaw", "aliases": [ "Henshaw" ], "description": "A friend of Laurie’s whom Laurie helped financially so he would not have to work himself to death." }, { "name": "Miss Randal", "aliases": [ "the lovely Miss Randal" ], "description": "A young woman Laurie jokingly says is cruel to him; he claims to be pining for her." }, { "name": "Miss Eliott", "aliases": [ "the one young lady", "Amy's guest" ], "description": "The only one of Amy’s drawing classmates who comes to the rescheduled outing. She enjoys the lunch, studio, garden, and drive." }, { "name": "Amy's drawing classmates", "aliases": [ "the girls in Amy's drawing class" ], "description": "A group of twelve or fourteen young women invited by Amy to an artistic outing; all but Miss Eliott fail to attend." }, { "name": "Hannah's admirer", "aliases": [ "Laurence gardener" ], "description": "Mr. Laurence’s unnamed gardener, who is attracted to Hannah and once sent a love letter through the girls’ post-office." }, { "name": "Meg's dance partner", "aliases": [ "red-headed youth", "big red-headed youth" ], "description": "A jovial young man at Mrs. Gardiner’s party who danced with Meg; the text later identifies him as Ned Moffat." }, { "name": "Meg and Laurie's forged-letter heroine", "aliases": [ "Caroline Percy" ], "description": "A fictional heroine Meg was compared with after she replied prudently to what she believed was Mr. Brooke’s love letter." }, { "name": "Sick son in Washington hospital", "aliases": [ "last son", "other son" ], "description": "The elderly man’s surviving son, who was ill in a Washington hospital and whom his father was traveling to visit." }, { "name": "Mr. March's parishioners", "aliases": [ "the small parish" ], "description": "The people of the small parish served by Mr. March after the war; they have in him a minister by nature and grace." }, { "name": "Miss Crocker", "aliases": [ "Croaker", "the old lady" ], "description": "A poor, elderly, inquisitive woman with few friends, whom Jo escorts to a lecture. Jo receives a new idea for writing in return." }, { "name": "Twelve or fourteen young ladies in the lecture audience", "aliases": [ "two matrons", "humble lovers", "sombre spinster" ], "description": "Unnamed audience members sitting near Jo and Miss Crocker at a lecture: two matrons, a pair of lovers, and a spinster eating peppermints." }, { "name": "Old gentleman at the lecture", "aliases": [ "old gentleman" ], "description": "An unnamed audience member who naps behind a yellow bandanna at the lecture Jo attends." }, { "name": "The sleepy old lady", "aliases": [ "old lady on the omnibus" ], "description": "An unnamed passenger on the omnibus who gets out shortly before Amy’s basket spills and reveals her lobster." }, { "name": "Mr. Laurence's little granddaughter", "aliases": [ "little girl" ], "description": "Mr. Laurence’s granddaughter, who died young and whom he loved dearly. He gave Beth the piano that belonged to her." }, { "name": "Laurie’s parents’ child", "aliases": [ "Laurie" ], "description": "Laurie was born in Italy to Mr. Laurence’s son and an Italian musician; he was a little child when both parents died and was then taken in by his grandfather." }, { "name": "Mr. March's father", "aliases": [ "Mrs. March's father" ], "description": "Mrs. March’s father, mentioned as an old friend of Mr. Laurence; he does not appear directly." }, { "name": "Esther", "aliases": [ "Estelle", "Estelle Valnor", "old Esther", "the maid" ], "description": "A Frenchwoman and longtime maid to Aunt March, whose original name is Estelle. She befriends Amy, helps her make a will, and encourages her to pray; she is one of its witnesses." }, { "name": "Aunt March's cook", "aliases": [ "the cook" ], "description": "An unnamed, bad-tempered cook employed in Aunt March’s household." }, { "name": "Aunt March's coachman", "aliases": [ "the old coachman" ], "description": "An unnamed, deaf coachman employed by Aunt March." }, { "name": "Aunt March's father", "aliases": [ "her father" ], "description": "Aunt March’s father, who gave her pearls on her wedding day." }, { "name": "Aunt March's lover", "aliases": [ "her lover" ], "description": "An unnamed former lover of Aunt March, whose diamonds she keeps among her jewelry." }, { "name": "Aunt March's former mistress", "aliases": [ "the good mistress whom Esther served before Madame" ], "description": "An unnamed woman Esther served before joining Aunt March’s household. She had a chapel where she went to pray and find comfort." }, { "name": "The divine mother and child", "aliases": [ "the Madonna and Child", "the smiling Christ-child" ], "description": "The sacred figures shown in the valuable picture Esther borrows for Amy’s prayer corner. Amy treasures the image of the Christ-child on his mother’s knee." }, { "name": "Meg's imagined husband", "aliases": [ "splendid, wise, good husband" ], "description": "An unnamed future husband Meg imagines as part of her ideal family life; he is only mentioned as part of Jo’s teasing description of Meg’s dream." }, { "name": "The young man in the portrait", "aliases": [ "Laurie's father" ], "description": "Laurie’s father, shown in a portrait above Mr. Laurence’s desk. He ran away in his youth and married against Mr. Laurence’s wishes." }, { "name": "Kitty Bryant", "aliases": [ "Kitty" ], "description": "Amy’s friend and favorite playmate, whom Amy names in her will and compares with the turquoise ring Aunt March gives her." }, { "name": "Heinrich", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Mrs. Hummel’s children, who has a sore throat when the doctor examines the family." }, { "name": "Mrs. Hummel's baby", "aliases": [ "the baby" ], "description": "The youngest child of Mrs. Hummel, who dies in Beth’s arms while Beth is visiting the family." }, { "name": "S. Hale", "aliases": [ "S. Hale" ], "description": "The sender of a telegram from Blank Hospital in Washington informing Mrs. March that her husband is very ill and asking her to come at once." }, { "name": "Dr. Bangs", "aliases": [ "the doctor" ], "description": "The doctor who treats Beth during her scarlet fever. He advises the family to send for Mrs. March when Beth becomes dangerously ill, and later reports that she is likely to recover." }, { "name": "Barber", "aliases": [ "Thomas" ], "description": "A barber who buys Jo’s hair for twenty-five dollars after hearing that she wants to help her father. His wife persuades him to accept the sale." }, { "name": "Barber's wife", "aliases": [ "Thomas's wife" ], "description": "The barber’s kind wife, who urges him to buy Jo’s hair after hearing that Jo needs money for her father. Her son Jimmy is serving in the army." }, { "name": "Jimmy", "aliases": [ "the barber's son" ], "description": "The barber’s wife’s son, who is serving in the army; Jo’s story about her father’s illness prompts his mother to sympathize with her." }, { "name": "Hattie King", "aliases": [ "Hattie" ], "description": "A King family member whom Amy mentions as someone who says French greetings such as “Merci” and “Bon jour.”" }, { "name": "Pip", "aliases": [ "the canary", "little Pip" ], "description": "Beth’s pet canary, who dies after she forgets to feed him. The March sisters bury him in the garden." }, { "name": "Mrs. Barker", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Barker" ], "description": "A woman at the Laurence household who prepares the lunch hamper for the Camp Laurence picnic." }, { "name": "Ellen Tree", "aliases": [ "apple-tree horse" ], "description": "An apple tree in the Marches’ garden that Jo and Amy pretend is a horse by fitting it with an old saddle and makeshift reins." }, { "name": "Scrabble's oldest son", "aliases": [ "fine young fellow" ], "description": "The eldest son of Jo’s pet rat Scrabble, who accompanies him across the garret beams." }, { "name": "Jo's black-eyed observer", "aliases": [ "black-eyed young gentleman" ], "description": "An unnamed young man who watches Jo repeatedly approach a building in town and follows her outside, offering help. He is Laurie." }, { "name": "Portuguese pirate captain", "aliases": [ "pirate captain", "sly dog" ], "description": "An unnamed fictional pirate captain in Fred’s contribution to the picnic’s improvised story. He is captured by a British ship, escapes by diving underwater, and sinks it." }, { "name": "Mermaid in the improvised story", "aliases": [ "mermaid" ], "description": "An unnamed mermaid in the picnic’s improvised story who welcomes the shipwrecked sailors and tries to restore the headless knights." }, { "name": "Little goose-girl", "aliases": [ "little girl" ], "description": "An unnamed girl in Amy’s contribution to the picnic’s improvised story. She follows an old woman’s advice and uses cabbages to give the headless knights new heads." }, { "name": "The old woman in the improvised story", "aliases": [ "old woman" ], "description": "An unnamed old woman in Amy’s contribution to the picnic’s improvised story, who tells the goose-girl that the geese know what to do." }, { "name": "Count Gustave", "aliases": [ "the knight", "Sir What's-his-name" ], "description": "A fictional knight in the picnic’s improvised story, assembled from the players’ inventions. He seeks a captive princess and ends up in a series of absurd adventures." }, { "name": "Captive princess", "aliases": [ "ravishingly lovely lady", "queen of his affections", "pretty princess" ], "description": "An unnamed princess in the picnic’s improvised story whom the knight tries to rescue. She is eventually said to be picking flowers behind a hedge." }, { "name": "Tyrant in the mauve salon", "aliases": [ "villain", "old fellow in a black gown" ], "description": "An unnamed fictional tyrant in Kate’s continuation of the picnic story, who strikes the knight with a Greek lexicon." }, { "name": "Old king in the improvised story", "aliases": [ "good old king" ], "description": "An unnamed king in Mr. Brooke’s contribution to the picnic’s improvised story, who offers a reward for training his spirited colt." }, { "name": "The March sisters’ mother’s old nurse", "aliases": [ "old woman who nursed his mother" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who nursed Mr. Brooke’s mother and whom he now supports. Laurie mentions his quiet generosity to Meg." }, { "name": "Man with the tent", "aliases": [ "tent carrier" ], "description": "An unnamed man seen carrying the tent to the Camp Laurence picnic site." }, { "name": "Hired carriage driver", "aliases": [ "carriage driver" ], "description": "An unnamed driver of the carriage bringing Kate, Grace, Fred, and Frank Vaughn to Camp Laurence." }, { "name": "Old horse at the picnic", "aliases": [ "venerable horse" ], "description": "A horse grazing near the Camp Laurence picnic, startled by the party’s laughter." }, { "name": "Three children at the fence", "aliases": [ "three white-headed children" ], "description": "Three unnamed children who watch the Camp Laurence picnic over a fence." }, { "name": "Objectionable dog", "aliases": [ "dog across the river" ], "description": "An unnamed dog across the river that barks loudly at the picnic children." }, { "name": "The squirrel", "aliases": [ "squirrel" ], "description": "A squirrel in the pine grove that startles Beth and gives away Laurie’s presence, then gathers food as the girls work." }, { "name": "Oldest son of Scrabble", "aliases": [ "Scrabble's oldest son" ], "description": "The eldest son of Jo’s pet rat Scrabble, who appears with his father in the garret. (This is the same rat identified above as Scrabble’s oldest son.)" }, { "name": "Mrs. Gardiner", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Gardiner" ], "description": "A stately older woman who invites Meg and Jo to her New Year’s Eve dance. She is the mother of six daughters." }, { "name": "Mr. Gardiner", "aliases": [ "old Mr. Gardiner" ], "description": "An older man at the Gardiners’ party, whom Jo accidentally encounters while looking for the dining room." }, { "name": "Hired waiter", "aliases": [ "waiter" ], "description": "A hired waiter at the Gardiners’ party whom Jo asks to find a carriage; he does not know the neighborhood." }, { "name": "Mr. Moffat", "aliases": [ "Mr. Moffat" ], "description": "A fat, jolly gentleman who knows Meg’s father and hosts Meg during her visit to his family. He dances with Meg and boasts to guests about her family and connection to the Laurences." }, { "name": "Miss Belle Moffat", "aliases": [ "Belle", "Miss Belle" ], "description": "An older Moffat daughter who is engaged. She lends Meg a blue silk dress and helps dress her for a party." }, { "name": "Miss Clara Moffat", "aliases": [ "Clara" ], "description": "An older Moffat daughter who praises Meg’s arms and helps prepare her for a party." }, { "name": "Nan Moffat", "aliases": [ "Nan" ], "description": "One of the Moffat sisters, who advises Meg on managing her skirt and high-heeled shoes." }, { "name": "Fisher", "aliases": [ "Fisher" ], "description": "A young man at the Moffats’ party who accompanies Ned and behaves foolishly, in Laurie’s opinion." }, { "name": "Major Lincoln", "aliases": [ "Major Lincoln" ], "description": "A guest at the Moffats’ party who admires Meg’s eyes and later remarks to his mother that the others have made her look like a doll." }, { "name": "Major Lincoln's mother", "aliases": [ "his mother" ], "description": "An unnamed woman at the Moffats’ party, addressed by her son Major Lincoln when he comments on Meg’s appearance." }, { "name": "Hortense", "aliases": [ "Hortense" ], "description": "The Moffats’ maid, who helps Belle dress Meg for a party, adding jewelry and makeup." }, { "name": "Moffat family maid", "aliases": [ "maid" ], "description": "An unnamed maid in the Moffat household who brings flowers for Meg and announces that they are for Miss March." }, { "name": "Jo's pet rat", "aliases": [ "Scrabble" ], "description": "Jo’s pet rat, who lives in the Marches’ garret and keeps her company." }, { "name": "Joanna", "aliases": [ "Joanna" ], "description": "Beth’s cherished doll, whom Beth tends as if she were a child. During the idle-week experiment, Beth shakes her and calls her a fright." }, { "name": "Meg's partner", "aliases": [ "partner" ], "description": "An unnamed guest at the Moffats’ party who dances with Meg and later brings her an ice." }, { "name": "Young gentleman at the Moffats' party", "aliases": [ "young gentleman who tried to be witty" ], "description": "An unnamed guest who makes feeble jokes to Meg at the Moffats’ party." }, { "name": "Old lady at the Moffats' party", "aliases": [ "old lady" ], "description": "An unnamed guest who asks Mrs. Moffat about Meg after seeing her dressed for the party." }, { "name": "Aunt Cockle-top", "aliases": [ "Aunt Cockle-top" ], "description": "A hen whose family of chicks Jo plans to feed with sunflower seeds from her garden." }, { "name": "Daddy-long-legs", "aliases": [ "inquisitive daddy-long-legs" ], "description": "A spider that inspects Amy’s drawing while she sits in her garden; it is mentioned as the only visitor who appears." }, { "name": "Flora McFlimsey", "aliases": [ "Flora McFlimsey" ], "description": "A person invoked by Amy as a comic comparison when she laments having nothing suitable to wear." }, { "name": "Sairy Gamp", "aliases": [ "Sairy Gamp" ], "description": "A character Jo cites while proposing a toast about fun and avoiding work." }, { "name": "Pickwick Club members", "aliases": [ "Meg as Samuel Pickwick", "Jo as Augustus Snodgrass", "Beth as Tracy Tupman", "Amy as Nathaniel Winkle" ], "description": "The four March sisters form the Pickwick Club and write its weekly paper, the Pickwick Portfolio. Meg presides as Pickwick, Jo edits as Snodgrass, Beth is Tupman, and Amy is Winkle." }, { "name": "Count de Adelon", "aliases": [ "the count" ], "description": "A fictional character in Jo’s story “The Masked Marriage,” who arranges his daughter Viola’s marriage to Count Antonio and is surprised when she marries Ferdinand Devereux instead." }, { "name": "Lady Viola", "aliases": [ "Viola", "the bride" ], "description": "A fictional character in Jo’s story “The Masked Marriage,” Count de Adelon’s daughter. She loves Ferdinand Devereux and marries him in secret rather than Count Antonio." }, { "name": "Count Antonio", "aliases": [ "the old count" ], "description": "A fictional character in Jo’s story “The Masked Marriage,” the count whom Viola’s father arranges for her to marry, though she hates him." }, { "name": "Ferdinand Devereux", "aliases": [ "Ferdinand Devereux and De Vere", "the young English artist" ], "description": "A fictional artist and Viola’s lover in Jo’s story “The Masked Marriage.” He reveals that he is the Earl of Devereux and De Vere and marries Viola." }, { "name": "The priest", "aliases": [ "priest" ], "description": "An unnamed priest in Jo’s story “The Masked Marriage,” who conducts the masked wedding of Viola and Ferdinand." }, { "name": "Mrs. Snowball Pat Paw", "aliases": [ "S. B. Pat Paw", "Snowball Pat Paw" ], "description": "A cat whose supposed disappearance is mourned in a playful Pickwick Portfolio notice and poem. The sisters speculate that she may have been stolen." }, { "name": "Aunt Cockle-top's chicks", "aliases": [ "family of chicks" ], "description": "The chicks belonging to Aunt Cockle-top, whom Jo plans to feed with sunflower seeds." }, { "name": "The grocer-man", "aliases": [ "grocer-man" ], "description": "An unnamed grocer in the Pickwick Portfolio’s comic account of a squash, who buys it from a farmer and sells it to a little girl." }, { "name": "The farmer", "aliases": [ "farmer" ], "description": "An unnamed farmer in the Pickwick Portfolio’s comic account of a squash, who plants the seed, grows the squash, and sells it at market." }, { "name": "Little girl who buys the squash", "aliases": [ "little girl in a brown hat and blue dress" ], "description": "An unnamed girl in the Pickwick Portfolio’s comic account of a squash. She buys it for her mother, prepares it, and the March family later eats it." }, { "name": "Count de Adelon's guests", "aliases": [ "knights and ladies", "gallant friends" ], "description": "The assembled guests at the masked ball in Jo’s story “The Masked Marriage,” who witness Viola and Ferdinand’s wedding." }, { "name": "The fairy queen and troubadour", "aliases": [ "fairy queen", "gallant troubadour" ], "description": "Two unnamed characters in Jo’s story “The Masked Marriage,” who discuss Viola and Count Antonio at the masquerade." }, { "name": "Uncle March", "aliases": [ "Uncle March" ], "description": "A kind gentleman who died before the story’s present events. He was fond of Jo, told her stories, gave her gingerbread, and left his library to Aunt March." }, { "name": "Aunt March's suitor", "aliases": [ "prim old gentleman who came to woo Aunt March" ], "description": "An unnamed gentleman who once tried to court Aunt March; her parrot pulled off his wig during his speech." }, { "name": "Beth's dolls", "aliases": [ "six dolls", "invalid dolls" ], "description": "Beth’s six cherished dolls, which she dresses and cares for as if they were real children. One is a badly damaged doll that once belonged to Jo." }, { "name": "Jo's damaged doll", "aliases": [ "forlorn fragment of dollanity", "chronic invalid" ], "description": "A badly damaged doll that once belonged to Jo and was rescued from the rag-bag by Beth, who nurses it tenderly." }, { "name": "Maria Parks", "aliases": [ "Maria Parks" ], "description": "A schoolgirl whose mother punishes her by shortening her dresses when she misbehaves; Amy mentions her as an example." }, { "name": "Susie Perkins", "aliases": [ "Susie" ], "description": "Amy’s schoolmate, who wears a carnelian ring and is publicly punished by Mr. Davis after drawing a caricature of him." }, { "name": "Mr. Davis", "aliases": [ "old Davis" ], "description": "Amy’s schoolteacher, who enforces a strict ban on pickled limes and punishes Amy with blows and public humiliation. Mrs. March disapproves of his teaching methods." }, { "name": "Jenny Snow", "aliases": [ "that Snow girl" ], "description": "A sharp-tongued schoolmate of Amy’s who reports Amy’s pickled limes to Mr. Davis after Amy refuses to share them." }, { "name": "Katy Brown", "aliases": [ "Katy" ], "description": "One of Amy’s schoolmates, who invites her to a party after hearing Amy has brought limes to share." }, { "name": "Mary Kingsley", "aliases": [ "Mary" ], "description": "One of Amy’s schoolmates, who offers to lend her a watch after learning Amy has brought limes." }, { "name": "Mr. King", "aliases": [ "papa" ], "description": "The father of the King children, for whom Meg works as a nursery governess. He sends his oldest son away after the boy does something disgraceful." }, { "name": "Mrs. King", "aliases": [ "Mrs. King" ], "description": "The mother of the King children and Meg’s employer. Meg hears her crying after the family’s oldest son is sent away." }, { "name": "Grace King", "aliases": [ "Grace" ], "description": "One of the King daughters, who has red eyes after her older brother is sent away." }, { "name": "Ellen King", "aliases": [ "Ellen" ], "description": "One of the King daughters, who has red eyes after her older brother is sent away." }, { "name": "Oldest King son", "aliases": [ "oldest brother" ], "description": "The eldest son of the King family, mentioned as having done something dreadful and being sent away by his father." }, { "name": "Poor woman’s children", "aliases": [ "her children" ], "description": "The children of the poor woman who asks for food; they are mentioned in Beth’s account of Mr. Laurence giving their mother a fish." }, { "name": "Mr. Cutter", "aliases": [ "the fish-man" ], "description": "The fish seller in whose shop Beth sees Mr. Laurence give a fish to a poor woman." }, { "name": "Old man with sons in the army", "aliases": [ "old man" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly man who tells Mrs. March that four of his sons have served in the army: two were killed, one is a prisoner, and the last is ill in a Washington hospital." }, { "name": "Old man's four sons", "aliases": [ "four sons" ], "description": "The sons of the elderly man who speaks with Mrs. March. Two have been killed, one is a prisoner, and the fourth is sick in a Washington hospital." }, { "name": "Irish children", "aliases": [ "little Irish children" ], "description": "Children in the street who cheer when Amy throws her confiscated limes out of the school window." }, { "name": "School guest", "aliases": [ "distinguished personage" ], "description": "An unnamed visitor to Amy’s school who praises her maps before leaving." }, { "name": "Aunt March's caller", "aliases": [ "young lady" ], "description": "An unnamed visitor who calls at Aunt March’s house and is announced by a surprised servant while Jo is there." }, { "name": "Laurence servant", "aliases": [ "servant", "maid" ], "description": "A servant at the Laurence house who announces Jo’s arrival and later calls Laurie to see the doctor." }, { "name": "Doctor", "aliases": [ "the doctor" ], "description": "An unnamed doctor who comes to see Laurie while Jo is visiting." }, { "name": "Newborn baby", "aliases": [ "little baby" ], "description": "The baby of the poor woman helped by the March family on Christmas morning." }, { "name": "Oldest Hummel boy", "aliases": [ "oldest boy" ], "description": "The oldest of the poor woman’s children, who comes to ask Mrs. March for help for his hungry, cold family." }, { "name": "Hummel children", "aliases": [ "hungry little children", "Hummels" ], "description": "The six children of the poor woman helped by the March family. 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