Do Laurie and Amy have babies?

Elizabeth Laurence ("Bess") – The only daughter of Laurie and Amy, named for Beth. Like her mother, she develops a love for art as she grows up.
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What is the age difference between Laurie and Amy?

I know the age difference between Amy and Laurie is only three or four years, but their love and marriage would seem more normal to me if Laurie was ten years older yet they simply hadn't had much interaction when Amy was a kid.
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What happens to Laurie and Amy?

Laurie ended up with Amy because Alcott decided to make Amy Laurie's romantic partner. It could've been the way that Alcott, often a writer of more scandalous stories, wanted to bring in a little scandal to this otherwise moral story.
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Does Amy marry Laurie in the book?

Amy becomes the family's golden child, heading to Europe to study art and eventually becoming wife to Laurie, Jo's best friend and the man everyone—the characters in the novel and readers poring over the text—thought Jo would marry. Don't miss what matters.
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Why does Amy Call Laurie my lord?

Later life. Amy became a dignified woman and is the only one who wants to marry a rich man so she would not have a hard time in terms of finance but at the last minute turns Fred Vaughn down, and marries Laurie instead. It is said she called him 'My Lord'.
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How old is Amy at the end of the book?

Amy kicks off the Little Women story as a 12-year-old and ends as a young adult who has seen more of the world and fallen in love and gotten married and had a child. Meg and Jo both age and mature, but they start already on the brink of womanhood.
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Why did Jo say no Laurie?

It is therefore extremely significant that Jo rejects Laurie despite the fact that he is handsome, kind, loving, and rich, and that she rejects him for no other reason than that she does not love him as she wants to love a husband. Alcott depicts this decision as admirable.
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Who is the prettiest March sister?

Meg, short for Margaret, is the oldest and (until Amy grows up) the prettiest of the four March sisters. She's also the most typical of the sisters – we think of her as everything that you might expect a nineteenth-century American girl from a good family to be.
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Did Jo ever love Laurie?

This confusion is easily reflected in Jo. So did Jo love Laurie? Yes. And she always will love Laurie.
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Why do they call Meg Daisy?

Daisy was named after her mother, Margaret "Meg" March, who was named after Daisy's grandmother, Margaret "Marmee" March.
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How many children did Meg March have?

As she matured, she blossomed into a beautiful woman and married John Brooke, the tutor of her neighbour, Laurie. Together, they had three children: Daisy and Demi (twins), and Josie.
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How much older is Professor Bhaer than Jo?

Stanley, an actor best known as one of the Night's Watch from “Game of Thrones,” is younger in age than Bhaers past. That means the age gap between him and Jo is smaller, only about 10 or so years, versus the 20-plus-year gap in previous versions.
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How old was Beth March?

Beth's dying had a strong impact on her sisters, especially Jo, who resolved to live her life with more consideration and care for others. Beth was twenty-three years old at the time of her death.
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Did Jo actually marry Frederick?

At the end of Little Women, Jo doesn't marry Laurie, her childhood friend. Instead, she marries Friedrich Bhaer, an older German professor she meets while living in New York.
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Was Laurie a real person?

Laurie might have been based off a real person.

Although this hasn't been confirmed, it's been surmised that Laurie's real life counterpart was Polish musician Ladislas Wisniewski, who Alcott met in 1865 in Europe, three years before Little Women was published.
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Did Jo March marry in real life?

In the book and its subsequent sequel Little Men, Jo marries Professor Bhaer, has two sons, and starts a boys' school. This is where the book most differs from reality. Alcott never married. She focused on her career as a writer and financially supported many of her family members at various points.
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Who is Jo's favorite sister?

And the character readers expect Jo to end up with, her charming best friend Laurie, marries Jo's least favorite sister Amy instead. And so, while generations of readers have loved Little Women and sighed over Little Women, they have also puzzled over that bizarre, unsatisfying ending.
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Why is Laurie so rude to Meg?

She is a bit embarrassed about the luxury of her attire, but she enjoys playing the role of a fashionable girl. Laurie is at the party and reprimands Meg for being so frivolous. His criticism makes Meg regret letting her friends dress her.
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Does Meg marry John?

John fell in love with the eldest March daughter, Meg and married her after the war, after much “begging” and convincing her he'd be a good husband to her. The couple moved into a little house, where their three children were born: the twins' Daisy and Demi and later Josie. He died in the book Little Men.
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Did Jo change her mind about Laurie?

Jo's love interests are changed somewhat from the book at the end of the Little Women movie. Instead of graciously telling Teddy he's a better fit for Amy, she gets a little bit cross in the movie and there's even a half-ditch effort from Jo to write Laurie/Teddy a letter telling him she's changed her mind.
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Do Laurie and Jo kiss in the book?

I figured she would have never have entertained the possibility of actually having them kiss in the novel. But lo and behold, I was amazed to recently discover (and I'll admit to squeeing just a little bit) that in an early manuscript of the proposal scene in Little Women, Alcott did have Laurie kissing Jo!
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Which march sister dies?

The new Little Women remake is an emotional rollercoaster. (Fun fact: Rollercoasters hadn't even been invented at the time the movie was set, in the 1860s. Why yes, I am a LW superfan.) There's sister drama, boy problems, and, most devastatingly, the death of Beth March, played by Eliza Scanlen.
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How old are the March sisters at the end?

The novel follows the story of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – and is loosely based on the author's life with her three sisters. They are aged 16, 15, 13 and 12.
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Who is the oldest little woman?

Anna Alcott, or Meg March in Little Women, was the the oldest daughter Alcott family, noted for her patience, femininity, and dutifulness.
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Do Jo and Friedrich have children?

The Bhaers moved to Plumfield, left to Jo by her Aunt March, where they established a school. Fritz taught the children many virtues and important things while also teaching them education. They raised Fritz's two orphaned nephews, Franz and Emil Hoffmann, and their own sons, Robert and Theodore.
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