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5. Little Women.
‘In spite of the curly crop, I don’t see the ‘son Jo’ whom I left a year
ago,’ said Mr. March. ‘I see a young lady who pins her collar straight, laces
her boots neatly, and neither talks slang, nor lies on the rug as she used to
do. Her face is rather thin and pale just now, with watching and anxiety, but
I like to look at it, for it has grown gentler, and her voice is lower; she
doesn’t bounce, but moves quietly, and takes care of a certain little person
in a motherly way which delights me. I rather miss my wild girl, but if I get
a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite
satisfied. I don’t know whether the shearing sobered our black sheep, but I do
know that in all Washington I couldn’t find anything beautiful enough to be
bought with the five-and-twenty dollars which my good girl sent me.’
Little Women has Suzanne and Chris tackling
new territory: a novel, a children’s book, and something written within the
last two hundred years. They discuss this tale of four sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth,
and Amy), the possibilities it offers young women (but eventually takes from
them), its complex exploration of gender, and its fascination with death.
Show Notes.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. [Project
Gutenberg.
Bookshop.]
Avidly, on the Los Angeles Review of Books, had a great cluster of
articles about each
of the sisters.
“How Little Women Got Big” at the New Yorker, which draws upon a recent book about
Little Women, Anne Boyd Rioux’s Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women
and Why It Still Matters.
Next episode: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein.
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By Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Chris Piuma
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‘In spite of the curly crop, I don’t see the ‘son Jo’ whom I left a year
ago,’ said Mr. March. ‘I see a young lady who pins her collar straight, laces
her boots neatly, and neither talks slang, nor lies on the rug as she used to
do. Her face is rather thin and pale just now, with watching and anxiety, but
I like to look at it, for it has grown gentler, and her voice is lower; she
doesn’t bounce, but moves quietly, and takes care of a certain little person
in a motherly way which delights me. I rather miss my wild girl, but if I get
a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite
satisfied. I don’t know whether the shearing sobered our black sheep, but I do
know that in all Washington I couldn’t find anything beautiful enough to be
bought with the five-and-twenty dollars which my good girl sent me.’
Little Women has Suzanne and Chris tackling
new territory: a novel, a children’s book, and something written within the
last two hundred years. They discuss this tale of four sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth,
and Amy), the possibilities it offers young women (but eventually takes from
them), its complex exploration of gender, and its fascination with death.
Show Notes.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. [Project
Gutenberg.
Bookshop.]
Avidly, on the Los Angeles Review of Books, had a great cluster of
articles about each
of the sisters.
“How Little Women Got Big” at the New Yorker, which draws upon a recent book about
Little Women, Anne Boyd Rioux’s Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women
and Why It Still Matters.
Next episode: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein.
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