Case e stanze per scrivere. Da Louisa May Alcott a Jo March di "Piccole donne"

This essay examines Louisa May Alcott's struggle to establish physical and symbolic spaces for writing in nineteenth-century America. Through analysis of her personal writings and Little Women, it explores how Alcott navigated between domestic obligations and literary ambitions. The author traces Alcott's various writing spaces—from Orchard House's cramped desk to boarding house rooms—revealing her ambivalent relationship with domesticity and family. Through Jo March's character, Alcott experiments with the Künstlerroman, depicting the attic, bedroom, and boarding house as evolving spaces of creativity. Ultimately, the essay demonstrates how material conditions and gender expectations shaped women writers' spatial negotiations and artistic identities.