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When Louisa May Alcott published her semiautobiographical novel Little Women in 1868, few could have predicted this domestic story about four Massachusetts sisters surviving genteel poverty, the ...

Howard Bradley knows what equality looks like. The son of a nurse and a firefighter, he grew up in a neighborhood of Springfield, Tenn., characterized by what he calls “genteel poverty ...

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The March family in Little Women was not wealthy — they lived in genteel poverty. But the real Alcott family lived in dire need. Watch Clips From The Film: "Lively, ...

Rather, it follows the story of a woman named Sibylla raising her brilliant young son Ludo in genteel poverty in 1990s London. Unable to afford heat for their home, the two spend their days riding ...

Living in genteel poverty in stately homes, the girls variously believed in poltergeists, pre-destination and barmy superstitions. Their philistine father's loathing of foreigners, ...

Consider the genteel poverty of protagonists in novels by chroniclers of class such as Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, and Jane Austen. Regardless of their reduced circumstances, ...