Following the release of Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film adaptation, scholar Anne Boyd Rioux joins Eve and Julie to talk about why the Little Women we grew up with is not, in fact, Alcott’s original text--and why Little Women still matters.
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why it Still Matters
"A love letter written not by a smitten youngster naive to her beloved's drawbacks but by a mature adult who can recognize complexity and nuance."
― Ilana Masad, NPR
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters, by Anne Boyd Rioux
Little Women, Norton Critical Edition, by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, by Louisa May Alcott
J. K. Rowling, Author of the Harry Potter series
Roberts Brothers, US Publisher
Frank T. Merrill, Illustrator of original Little Women
The Neapolitan Novels, by Elena Ferrante
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Little Women, 1933 film starring Katharine Hepburn
Little Women, 2019 film starring Saoirse Ronan
National Council of Teachers of English
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott
Jo’s Boys, by Louisa May Alcott
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis