Louisa May Alcotts Little Women is the authors love song for German culture and literature. In the novel, there are many moments when the characters make references to German literature, and Jo's love interest professor Bhaer is also based on Alcott's favourite writer, the German poet Goethe. When Friedrich helps Jo when she struggles writing to Weekly Volcano, we can see her influences from Goethe, Friedrich recommends Jo read Shakespeare and study characters like Goethe would have done. It is also remarkable that Alcott gives Jo a German love interest because German immigrants were widely discriminated in 19th century America, but in Concord where Alcott's resided there was a full-blown German epidemic with people rushing to buy German books and anything that came from Germany.
When Jo stays in New York, her hostess in the boarding house is Mrs Kirk. "Kirk" is an anglicized last name from the German word Kirche, meaning church. What it comes to 19th-century German culture and the influences of German immigration into American culture March trilogy is consistently favourable towards it. One of Louisas favourite authors was the German poet Goethe and Goethe was one of the models for Friedrichs character. In Little Women, on her grand tour in Europe with aunt March, Amy visits Goethes house, writes home and tells about it. On her first trip to Europe, Louisa herself made a pilgrimage to Goethes House.