This humble woman has been wronged; I beg Your Honour to see justice done!
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Louisa May Alcott's novel follows 梅格 (Meg), 乔 (Jo), 贝思 (Beth) and 艾美 (Amy) through the years of the American Civil War. Its many films, the latest in 2019, have all kept the Chinese title.
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The "humble woman" sense belongs to old fiction and opera, where a married commoner calls herself this before an official or a man of rank; today it is heard only in period dramas. A young unmarried woman says 小女子 instead.
