LITERARY | The Lady Who Stood Behind

It is in the wake of war that dimmed voices longed to be heard the most. This notion is proven especially true for Dear Louisa, for she not only bore witness to the tragic reality of it all, but she witnessed it as a woman of her time, striving amidst the repression. 

Louisa May Alcott, just like any other lady of her time, has been a spectator of the systemic lack of recognition for women in 19th-century society. She saw the disparity between the significance attributed to men and the relative invisibility of women– a realization that fueled her resolve to carve out a path for women's voices amidst the plague of patriarchy that governed their lives. By then, she swore not to be just a diluted echo; she became a forerunner of empowering ladies in her society, just by the tip of her pen and her astonishing knowledge in writing stories for her little women. 

Hundreds of years later, war will not be recognized as a crimson battle for women, but it will be a fight for honor to ensure that no woman remains unseen– may you be a mother, a child, an artist, a poet, a defiant, an angel, or just a girl. Louisa’s words will reach the new millennium’s sun, as it will continue to tell the desire of every woman, for she recognized that women have minds, and souls, as well as just hearts; they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. She profoundly understood that no woman's dreams can ever be unimportant. 

And even though she had stood so long before recognition came knocking on her door, she did not falter. For she knew that there are no people, nor no gender, nor voice, nor story, nor dreams that can ever be deemed too little. 

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