Louisa May Alcott 
An Old-Fashioned Girl 

‘The author of ‘Little Women’ seeks, and not without success, to draw from her ‘Old-Fashioned Girl’ a contrast and a moral. She presents to our view two young ladies of opposite ‘styles.’ One is fresh and rural: the other isn’t. The difference is about as great as that between the warbling of woodside birds and the jingle of one of Offenbach’s tunes on a corner barrel-organ.’—Book Notice from Punchinello, April 30, 1870.