This time I will tell you about a book that inspired Little Women. This book is Susan Warner's Wide Wide World. Wide Wide World appeared when LMA was 18 years old, and there is a moment in Little Women, where 15 year old Jo "was reading and crying over Wide Wide World in the apple tree". Best way I can describe Wide Wide World is a "Christian romance"? with plenty of morals and self-reflection. It was an interesting read, but as I love history it was great fun to do research on Susan Warner who was an interesting woman.

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Please notice that Little Women podcast has it's focus on the book canon. Laurie is partially based on Alcott's ex Laddie Wisniewski and friend of the Alcott sisters Alf Whitman and Friedrich is based on philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who Alcott wanted to marry and the German poet Goethe (her favorite writer). I also firmly believe that Alcott planned the marriages in Little Women, years before she wrote the book, you can read more about that here https://archiveofourown.org/works/52882897?view_adult=true

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