# Little Women — Character guide

> Key figures in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

- [Jo March](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/jo_march.md): The second March sister, a restless aspiring writer who declares herself 'the man of the family' and guards her secrets as fiercely as her temper.
- [Amy March](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/amy_march.md): The youngest March, a self-declared 'most important person' with blue eyes, yellow curls, and a cologne budget that leaves room for pencils.
- [Laurie Laurence](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/laurie_laurence.md): The wealthy, mischief-loving boy next door who wheedles, bribes, and teases Jo for her secrets, then bursts into the March parlor with news of a Christmas surprise.
- [Meg March](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/meg_march.md): The eldest March sister, pretty and domestic, who lectures her sisters about propriety while secretly thrilling to white gowns, gold-paper jewelry, and the idea of being grown up.
- [Beth March](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/beth_march.md): The third March sister, called 'Little Tranquillity,' who warms slippers at the hearth, hems handkerchiefs for Marmee, and dreads being the center of attention.
- [Marmee March](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/marmee_march.md): The March sisters' wise and loving mother, whose return at six o'clock brightens the whole house and whose patient counsel steadies Jo's wildest schemes.
- [Professor Bhaer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/professor_bhaer.md): Bhaer scrapes a living teaching indifferent young ladies who mock his accent, and Jo first notices him as the tired, hungry man at the bottom of Mrs. Kirke's boarding-house table. He is no polished suitor: he shouts phil
- [John Brooke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/john_brooke.md): A poor young man with no fortune and no theatrics, Brooke courts Meg under Aunt March's scandalized nose and against her threat to disinherit the girl. When Meg, flushed with Annie Moffat's lessons in coquetry, petulantl
- [Aunt March](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/aunt_march.md): Aunt March hobbles into the March household with opinions, money, and a talent for meddling, insisting Meg marry well and help the family rather than throw herself away on a penniless tutor. She wields her fortune like a
- [Hannah Mullet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/hannah_mullet.md): Hannah stalks in with turnovers on bleak mornings, scolds the girls for being 'the crossest family,' and never forgets the lunch that keeps them going. She is servant and second mother both, a fixture whose grumbling hid
- [Mr. March](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/mr_march.md): Off serving as a chaplain in the Civil War, Mr. March is felt in every letter, every sacrifice, and every dollar the girls scrape together to bring him home. A studious, unworldly minister who lost his property helping a
- [Demi Brooke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/demi_brooke.md): As the first grandchild of the March family, Demi arrives to be doted on, scolded, and philosophized over by aunts who once squabbled over slippers and Christmas plays. He is 'naughty Demi' to his mother, a puzzle and a 
- [Old Mr. Laurence](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/old_mr_laurence.md): As Laurie's guardian and the wealthiest man in the neighborhood, Mr. Laurence occupies a position of quiet power that could easily isolate him, yet he finds himself drawn into the March family's orbit through his grandso
- [Sallie Gardiner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/sallie_gardiner.md): Sallie Gardiner moves easily through the parties and parlors that Meg March can only dream of, and her invitation to the Moffat gathering becomes Meg's first real taste of luxury and its discontents. Through Sallie's soc
- [Ned Moffat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/ned_moffat.md): A wealthy young man who marries Sallie Gardiner and socializes with the March circle.
- [Fred Vaughn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/fred_vaughn.md): A young Englishman who courts Amy during her European travels.
- [Aunt Carrol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/aunt_carrol.md): A wealthy aunt who takes Amy to Europe as her companion.
- [Esther](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/esther.md): Aunt March's French maid who helps the March girls with various tasks.
- [Florence](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_women_se/characters/florence.md): A wealthy friend of the March sisters who appears in social gatherings.

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