There's another version of the manuscript that gets printed as Little Women, that has to be reprinted three times, that becomes a favorite of girls everywhere and ensures that Josephine March's name will live on. That version is rougher, rawer, honest in ways she couldn't not write but also couldn't send out to publishers, and it will stay always locked away in the bottom of Jo's trunk.

There are some things that are too private to share with the world, no matter how many names you change.