1. J. Dawson, “Little Women out to work: women and the marketplace in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Work, Children’s Literature in Education, 34 (2003) 111–130
2. Glenna Matthews, Just a Housewife. The Rise & Fall of Domesticity in America, Oxford University Press, New York, 1987, p. 34
3. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life among the Lowly, Chapter IV
4. Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1977, p. 120
5. Matthews, Op. cit. (2), p. 21