Overall, I love what this version does with the character of Jo March. For the first time, Jo's feelings for Laurie are clear, more accurately reflecting Alcott's view of things. In the book, Jo is repeatedly clear that she thinks of him more as a brother, while in the previous films there seemed to be a lot of flirting and mixed messages. Winona…
Last night my Little Women reading group and I met to watch the first episode of the PBS Masterpiece Little Women. It was wonderful to see them (my friends and the March sisters) again. My reading group had meet several times in 2016, while I was writing my book on Little Women, to discuss the novel and its two successors. They had all…
It has been lovely to hear from the first readers of Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters, which will come out Aug. 21. Because I had to produce the book so quickly in order to get it published for the 150th anniversary of Little Women on September 29, 2018, very few people had read it before it…