literary confusion

Learn from my mistakes, chums: never read Austen and Alcott together. I just did that. Well, kind of. I read Karen Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club, then Little Women, and then watched all of the BBC's Pride and Prejudice. (It's free, and in managable chunks. This Elizabeth is no Greer Garson, but I'll take Colin Firth over Laurence Olivier any day.) They've combined to create one ginormous superwoman character that's a bit Jane, a bit Elizabeth, a bit Louisa May, and a bit Jo. I feel like I'll never measure up.