While a seance with a few beloved authors sounds like a wonderful plan for a department reunion, Davianne will be relieved to know Louisa May Alcott can respond to her concerns through the timeless medium of pen and paper. It turns out that Alcott more than anticipated her readers’ frustrations with Jo’s choice for a husband. As she wrote in a letter to her friend, Elizabeth Powell, in 1869: A sequel will be out early in April, & like all sequels will probably disappoint or disgust most readers, for publishers won't let authors finish up as they like but insist on having people married off in a wholesale manner which much afflicts me. “Jo” should have remained a literary spinster but so many enthusiastic young ladies wrote to me clamorously demanding that she should marry Laurie, or somebody, that I didn't dare refuse & out of perversity went & made a funny match for her. I expect vials of wrath to be poured out upon my head, but rather enjoy the prospect.  P...