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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

The Woman Behind Little Women

Special encore broadcast airing May 20 in honor of “Little Women on Masterpiece” and “The Great American Read” on PBS Originally aired in 2009 Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, is an almost universally recognized name.  Her reputation as a morally upstanding New ...

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

Interview Outtakes from the Film

Louisa May Alcott's reputation as a morally upstanding spinster, reflecting the conventional propriety of late 19th Century Concord, is firmly established. However, raised among reformers, the intellectual protege of Emerson and Hawthorne and Thoreau, Alcott was actually a free thinker, with democratic ideals and progressive ...

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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

The Character of Jo March

Special encore broadcast airing May 20 in honor of “Little Women on Masterpiece” and “The Great American Read” on PBS Originally aired in 2009 For many girls, Little Women is a reading experience so stirring and lasting in impact that as adults they name their ...