In an NBC miniseries version, Susan Dey (Laurie from The Partridge Family) plays Jo. Some members of the feminist movement take up Jo as one of their own academic Carolyn Heilbrun writes that “Jo was a miracle” and a role model for “girls dreaming beyond the confines of a constricted family destiny.”

Critics (including me) haven’t stopped arguing about it since. When Orchard House is vandalized, with nearly 100 windowpanes broken, police point to the obvious culprit: “Small boys.”īroadway composer Richard Adler, best known for The Pajama Game, makes a musical Little Women to air on CBS.Ī New York Times article, “Does Little Women Belittle Women?,” argues that it does. The film grosses nearly $3.5 million in the U.S. O’Brien carries a basket around for much of the film - the same basket Judy Garland toted as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. IRL, Little Women Clubs pop up at the same time.įilm studios have another go, this time with June Allyson as Jo, Elizabeth Taylor as Amy, Margaret O’Brien as Beth, and relative newcomer Janet Leigh as Meg. The novelist Marion Ames Taggart writes The Little Women Club, a novel about … four young girls who attempt to become the March sisters by reenacting their lives. She’d been in poor health for years, possibly as a result of the mercury she’d been prescribed to treat the typhoid fever she caught nursing Civil War soldiers in a Washington, D.C., hospital. Little Women is combined into one volume when Alcott’s publisher, Roberts Brothers, decides to cash in on the holiday season and release a gilded-edge edition suitable for gifting.Īlcott winds down the March saga with Jo’s Boys and turns Jo into a novelist who has written “a little story describing a few scenes and adventures in the lives of herself and her sisters.”Īlcott dies of a stroke at 55. That house sold in October 2019 for $2.46 million. After her sister Anna’s husband dies suddenly, Alcott, who never married herself, helps provide for the fatherless family, buying them Thoreau’s house, where he wrote much of Walden. What’s next? How about a sequel: Little Men.

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