Meg March Timeline and Summary

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• Meg is sitting with her sisters on Christmas Eve, feeling blue because they are poor.
• Meg takes part in a play written by her sister Jo and performed for their friends and neighbors.
• Meg resolves to carry her "burdens" in life cheerfully.
• Meg sends a blancmange that she made to her neighbor Laurie, who is sick.
• She gives Amy the family's rag money so that she can buy pickled limes for her friends.
• Meg goes to stay with the Moffat family for two weeks to celebrate Belle Moffat's coming out.
• Meg allows the Moffat girls to dress her up in fancy clothes, makeup, and jewelry, and she behaves flirtatiously at their ball.
• She confesses her excesses at the Moffats' ball to Marmee and Jo.
• Meg presides over her sisters at the meeting of the Pickwick Club.
• Meg experiments with being lazy and finds out that she doesn't like it.
• Meg meets Laurie's British friends, the Vaughns, at a picnic.
• She is courted by Ned Moffat and John Brooke at the picnic.
• Meg describes her "castle in the air" to her sisters and Laurie.
• Meg is horrified to learn by telegram that her father has been wounded.
• Meg tries to take over as the head of the household in her mother's absence.
• She helps care for Beth, who has scarlet fever.
• Meg is relieved when her mother returns from Washington and takes over caring for Beth.
• Meg begins to fall in love with John Brooke.
• Meg is delighted when her father returns home on Christmas Day.
• Meg toys with John Brooke's affections.
• Meg defends John Brooke to her Aunt March.
• She accepts John Brooke's proposal of marriage.
• Meg waits for three years, learning to be a good homemaker while John Brooke serves as a soldier.
• Meg and John get married.
• Meg tries and spectacularly fails to make jelly.
• She wastes $50 on expensive silk.
• Meg convinces her friend Sallie to buy the silk from her and uses the money to buy John a new coat.
• Meg gives birth to twins, Daisy and Demi.
• She spends too much time with her children and neglects her husband.
• Meg and John achieve a balance between their adult relationship and caring for their children together.