Good Wives - A Sequel to Little Women

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Isaac, Megan Lynn (2018). "A Character of One's Own: The Perils of Female Authorship in the Young Adult Novel from Alcott to Birdsall". Children's Literature. 46: 133–168. doi: 10.1353/chl.2018.0007– via JSTOR. Meg is employed as a governess for the Kings, a wealthy local family. Because of their father's family's social standing, Meg makes her debut into high society, but is lectured by her friend and neighbor, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, for behaving like a snob. Meg marries John Brooke, Laurie's tutor. They have twins, Margaret "Daisy" Brooke and John Laurence "Demi" Brooke. The sequel, Little Men, mentions a baby daughter, Josephine "Josie" Brooke, [14] who is 14 at the beginning of the final book. [15] a b "Little Women Redux; Review of This Wide Night by Sarvat Hasin". Hindustan Times. April 21, 2017 . Retrieved November 28, 2020. MacDonald, Ruth M. (1983). Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Twayne Publishers. p. 95. ISBN 9780805773972. The story opens in Concord, Massachusetts, just a few days before Christmas in the year 1860. The four March girls – motherly Meg (age 16), boyish Jo (age 15), frail yet pious Beth (age 13), and elegant Amy (age 12) – live alone with their mother, Mrs. March. Their father, Mr. March, has volunteered to serve in the Union army as a chaplain, leaving his wife and daughters to fend for themselves in his absence. Though impoverished, the March family is rich in spirit; they are bolstered by their familial love and steered by strong Christian morals. On Christmas morning, the girls wake to discover that they’ve each received a copy of Pilgrim’s Progress, an allegorical novel about Christian morals. Together, they resolve to read a little from their books each day, and to put the morals they learn into practice. While attending a dance thrown by a local rich family, Meg and Jo meet Laurie, the grandson of the March family’s rich neighbor, Mr. Laurence. Laurie becomes a fixture at the March household, and old Mr. Laurence befriends the girls and becomes a surrogate grandfather to them. Laurie’s tutor, Mr. Brooke, also becomes a fixture in the March household, and he takes a special liking to Meg.

And then, there’s the actual ending: Jo, watching her book get printed. It's safe to assume that Jo’s Little Women, like Alcott’s, will be a massive success: In real life, Little Women has never gone out of print. Alcott resisted the specific match most fans wanted. Jo crushed her best friend Laurie – and the romantic dreams of generations of girls to come – by having her reject his ardent proposal. But she concocted an alternative suitor, Prof Friedrich Bhaer, an older, impoverished gentleman who is at times withering of Jo’s populist writing. He becomes the story’s strange romantic deus ex machina, who swoops in and gives her, and Little Women, something of a conventional ending. Margaret & John Laurence Brooke ("Daisy" and "Demijohn/Demi") – Meg's twin son and daughter. Daisy is named after both Meg and Marmee, while Demi is named for John and the Laurence family. Second oldest of the four sisters, Jo is boy-like, the smartest, most creative one in the family; her father has referred to her as his "son Jo," and her best friend and neighbour, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, sometimes calls her "my dear fellow," while she alone calls him Teddy. Jo has a "hot" temper that often leads her into trouble. With the help of her own misguided sense of humor, her sister Beth, and her mother, she works on controlling it. It has been said that much of Louisa May Alcott shows through in these characteristics of Jo. [18] In her essay, "Recollections of My Childhood", Alcott refers to herself as a tomboy who enjoyed boys' activities like running foot-races and climbing trees.

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Miss Norton – A friendly, well-to-do tenant living in Mrs. Kirke's boarding house. She occasionally invites Jo to accompany her to lectures and concerts. Universal Television produced a two-part miniseries based on the novel, which aired on NBC in 1978. It was followed by a 1979 series. In 2003 Little Women was ranked number 18 in The Big Read, a survey of the British public by the BBC to determine the "Nation's Best-loved Novel" (not children's novel); it is fourth-highest among novels published in the U.S. on that list. [42] Based on a 2007 online poll, the U.S. National Education Association listed it as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". [43] In 2012 it was ranked number 47 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily US audience. [44] Influence Alcott, Louisa (November 2, 2015). The Annotated Little Women. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393072198.

Since its publication in 1868, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women has been adapted countless times. Yet the latest film adaptation of Little Women, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, stands apart from the multiple movies, mini-series, and plays that came before it. More than a faithful retelling of Alcott’s novel, Gerwig’s soaring, Oscar-nominated movie is faithful to Alcott’s life—and her legacy as a woman ahead of her time.

Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only end and aim of a woman’s life,” Alcott wrote in her journal. Writer, and director Greta Gerwig took on the story in her 2019 adaptation of the novel. The film stars Saoirse Ronan as Jo, Emma Watson as Meg, Florence Pugh as Amy, Laura Dern as Marmee, Meryl Streep as Aunt March, Eliza Scanlen as Beth and Timothee Chalamet as Laurie. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. [61] Television Eldredge, Kristy (December 27, 2019). "Opinion | Men Are Dismissing 'Little Women.' What a Surprise". The New York Times . Retrieved December 27, 2019. Acocella, Joan (August 20, 2018). "How "Little Women" Got Big". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved February 25, 2019. Alcott, Louisa May (1880). Little Women: or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: John Wilson and Son . Retrieved May 31, 2010.