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Never liked girls nor knew many, except my sisters.
So she based her book on them (she was Jo).
The book toes the line between childrens and serious literature, and is reviewed byHarpersandThe Nation.
She quickly sets to work on a follow-up.
(They were eventually combined into one book.)
Alcott says shes considered turning a garden hose on them.
1871: The Franchise
Whats next?
1888: Hospital Sketches
Alcott dies of a stroke at 55.
IRL, Little Women Clubs pop up at the same time.
1912: Stage …
The first Broadway production ofLittle Womenis a massive hit.
That same year, Orchard House is turned into a museum.
The Bible has to settle for second place.
1933: Christopher Columbus!
RKO releases George Cukors celebrated film starring Katharine Hepburn as a galumphing tomboy version of Jo.
Its a hit and wins the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.
The National Council of Teachers of English hands out study guides to every American high school.
1933: Merch
Madame Alexander begins producing a line of Little Women dolls.
It still does: Jo will run you about $130 at Neiman Marcus.
1958: Sing It, Jo!
Broadway composer Richard Adler, best known forThe Pajama Game, makes a musicalLittle Womento air on CBS.
1973: But Is It Feminist?
A New YorkTimesarticle, DoesLittle WomenBelittle Women?, argues that it does.
Critics (includingme) havent stopped arguing about it since.
1977: Yes!
It Was for Its Time!
1978: Professor Kirk?
In an NBC miniseries version, Susan Dey (Laurie fromThe Partridge Family) plays Jo.
Cynthia Ozick: I readLittle Womena thousand times.
I am no longer incognito, not even myself.
I am Jo in her vortex; not Jo exactly but some Jo-of-the-future.
Erica Jong:Little Womentold me women could be writers, intellects and still have rich personal lives.
(Their house is destroyed during a battle.)
The pair bring in a female director Gillian Armstrong and a cast led by Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder.
We want to give you some more money.
1998: Le Donne Piccole
Composer Mark AdamosLittle Womenopera premieres in Houston.
2018: 150 Years
The book is reconsidered on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.
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