A review by softcover_sarah
Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott

4.0

This story, written under pseudonym by Alcott, is an effective example of what preoccupied her mind as a writer post-Little Women's success. Women in disguise are a motif of Alcott's later work, and here, is her attempt to fool not only her male characters with a talented, enterprising woman in disguise, but also her readers. Jean Muir is excellent, always what everyone needs, but never what anyone expects her to be, and I believe Alcott borrows from her sense of her own femininity to craft Jean Muir as a character, someone misunderstood by all parties involved.