Books are for Boys

1.       “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” I find statements like these to be very offensive, yet for the time period they were very common. Jo was not a favored girl in the novel, but she was my personal favorite. Jo did love to read almost as much as she loved to write. Most men in that time period still had the mindset that women should be uneducated, kept out of the work place and in the kitchen.