A timeline of major events in British women's history from 1850 to 1900.
Louisa May Alcott's family lived here all her life.
A timeline that allows everyone to practice adding events!
Jeannette is the first one of the family to move here. She works hard her senior year so she can go to Barnard College. Brian and Maureen move there next, followed by Rex and Mary. This is when Rex and Mary are homeless, as we see in the opening of the book, and also where Rex passes away.
When Jeannette’s family first moves here they stay with Rex’s family. This is where Erna Walls, Jeannette’s grandmother, sexually abuses Brian and the readers learn that she most likely inflicted similar abuse on Rex and her other children.
Jeannette and her family move here when Mary inherits a house from her mother. Jeannette spends her 10th birthday here, which is when she asks her father to stop drinking. Rex chains himself to his bed for several days in order to do so.
Jeannette and her family move here when Mary inherits a house from her mother. Jeannette spends her 10th birthday here, which is when she asks her father to stop drinking. Rex chains himself to his bed for several days in order to do so.
Jeannette and her family briefly lived in a house in this town that was in the heart of the desert. It was so remote that the water supply came in by train twice a day.
At the conclusion of the novel, Jasmine makes the choice to leave Iowa and Bud Ripplemeyer in order to travel to California with Taylor Hayes and his daughter, Duff. Jasmine justifies her decision by explaining “I am not choosing between men. I am caught between the promise of America and old-world dutifulness…It isn’t guilt that I feel, it’s relief...Adventure, risk, transformation: the frontier is pushing indoors through uncaulked windows” (Mukherjee 240).
