Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel
- Posted on July 22, 2025
- By The New Yorker
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Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel
In “Work: A Story of Experience,” Alcott fictionalizes her own stints as a servant, a seamstress, a governess, and a lady’s companion—and asks whether a wage counts as freedom for women.
