Amy March Timeline and Summary

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• Amy is sitting with her sisters on Christmas Eve, lamenting the fact that her family is poor.
• Amy takes part in a play written by her sister Jo.
• Amy resolves to carry her "burdens" gracefully.
• Amy convinces Meg to give her the family's rag money for the month so that she can buy pickled limes to share with her friends at school.
• Amy is caught with the pickled limes in her desk and punished by her teacher by being hit across the hand with a ruler.
• Amy leaves school and swears she will never go back.
• Amy promises her mother that she is mature enough to be home-schooled.
• Amy is angry when Jo, Laurie, and Meg go to a play without her. In revenge, she burns Jo's manuscript.
• Amy apologizes to Jo, but is not forgiven.
• Amy runs after Jo and Laurie, who are going ice skating.
• Amy falls through a weak spot in the ice and is rescued by Jo and Laurie.
• Amy and Jo are reconciled.
• Amy experiments with being lazy and discovers she doesn't like it.
• Amy attends "Camp Laurence" and meets Laurie's British friends, the Vaughns.
• Amy participates in the Pickwick Club with her sisters.
• Amy describes her "castle in the air" to Laurie and her sisters.
• Amy is disturbed when the family receives a telegram saying that Mr. March has been injured.
• Amy is well-behaved and helps the family while Mrs. March is gone.
• Amy is sent to stay at Aunt March's while Beth is ill with scarlet fever.
• Amy, with the help of Aunt March's maid Esther, creates a little chapel for herself at Aunt March's house.
• Amy makes a will.
• Amy shows the chapel to her mother, who has just returned from Washington.
• Amy is overjoyed to return home for Christmas and to see her father again.
• Amy attends Meg's wedding.
• Amy experiments with many different artistic methods and forms.
• Amy convinces Jo to help her pay calls on their wealthy friends and neighbors, with disastrous effects.
• Amy takes part in a fair organized by Mrs. Chester and impresses everyone with her unselfish, generous behavior.
• Amy is invited to go to Europe with her Aunt and Uncle Carrol and cousin Flo.
• Amy has a wonderful time traveling around Europe, seeing the sights, especially great art.
• Amy is reunited with Fred Vaughn, who courts her.
• Amy is reunited with Laurie, who falls in love with her.
• Amy lectures Laurie on his lazy behavior.
• Amy refuses Fred's proposal of marriage.
• Amy is distraught to learn of Beth's death.
• Amy and Laurie get married.
• Amy and Laurie return home and tell their families about their wedding.
• The pair resolve their fortune to help young men and women who have talent and need a little money to succeed.
• Amy gives birth to a daughter and names her Beth.
• Amy and Laurie worry about Beth's health.
• Amy begins making a marble sculpture of Beth.