a b c LaPlante, Eve (2013). Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-2067-2. A new adaptation by award-winning playwright Kate Hamill had its world premiere in 2018 at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis, followed by a New York premiere in 2019 at Primary Stages directed by Sarna Lapine. [57] Film Alcott: 'Not The Little Woman You Thought She Was' ". NPR. December 28, 2009 . Retrieved August 22, 2013.

a b c Saxton, Martha (1977). Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-374-52460-9.a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Sicherman, Barbara (2010). Well Read Lives: How Books Inspired A Generation of American Women. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3308-7. Alcott resisted the specific match most fans wanted. Jo crushed her best friend Laurie – and the romantic dreams of generations of girls to come – by having her reject his ardent proposal. But she concocted an alternative suitor, Prof Friedrich Bhaer, an older, impoverished gentleman who is at times withering of Jo’s populist writing. He becomes the story’s strange romantic deus ex machina, who swoops in and gives her, and Little Women, something of a conventional ending. Alcott, Louisa May (1880). Little Women: or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: John Wilson and Son . Retrieved May 31, 2010. Longest, David (1998). Little Women of Orchard House: A Full-length Play. Dramatic Publishing. p.115. ISBN 0-87129-857-0. And then, there’s the actual ending: Jo, watching her book get printed. It's safe to assume that Jo’s Little Women, like Alcott’s, will be a massive success: In real life, Little Women has never gone out of print.

The pressure – and desire to keep selling the books that were helping to lift her and her family out of poverty – proved effective. As the book went on, I found myself ashamed when the characters responded more virtuously to a situation than I would have or did something wrong in a way that rang true for me. For example, when Jo lets Amy fall through the ice because Amy destroyed Jo’s manuscript, I was horrified not only at Jo’s action, but at the fact that in some way, it made sense. Alcott is a master of presenting human emotions and behavior in a real, tactile manner that the reader can truly enter into. Matteson, John (2016). The Annotated Little Women. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. pp.liii. ISBN 978-0-393-07219-8.So tight and so obvious was this affinity that when I went to see Greta Gerwig’s gorgeous reimagining of the story with my mother and my two sisters recently, Mum turned to me in the cinema lobby beforehand. Seelinger Trites, Roberta (2009). "Journeys with Little Women". In Betsy Gould Hearne; Roberta Seelinger Trites (eds.). A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women's Lives. University of Illinois Press. p.15. ISBN 978-0-252-07611-4. Meanwhile, in New York, Jo became acquainted with Professor Friedrich Bhaer, who is taken by her writing (if sometimes harshly critical). When he is dismissive of something she wrote, Jo takes it personally and walks away from New York with bruised feelings. Later on, Professor Friedrich visits the March residence, and it is at this time that it becomes clear to the March family (and eventually Jo) that they have deep feelings for one another. Not because romance isn’t thrilling, or partnership isn’t desirable, but because it’s an enduring frustration that even in the 21st century it is still often positioned as the true aim and end of a woman’s life. Shortly after these two devastating events, Jo begins writing her biggest project yet: a novel, semi-autobiographical, that is inspired in part by her childhood and her relationship with her sisters. It will serve as a way to honor her late sister, as well as a way to make peace her with fading childhood. Eventually, Jo sends the beginning of her book to a publisher, who is initially hesitant about the book, but decides to go forward with it when his own children become enchanted by it.

A South Korean adaptation was developed and produced by Studio Dragon for local cable network tvN and Netflix. Written by Chung Seo-kyung [67] and directed by Kim Hee-won, it aired in September 2022. Caspi, Jonathan (2010). Sibling Development: Implications for Mental Health Practitioners. Springer Publishing Company. p.147. ISBN 978-0-8261-1753-3. The first color adaptation starred June Allyson as Jo, Margaret O'Brien as Beth, Elizabeth Taylor as Amy, and Janet Leigh as Meg. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, it was released in 1949. The film received two Academy Award nominations for color film, for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction/Set Direction, the latter for which it received the Oscar. [ citation needed]This graphic novel is a modern retelling of 'Little Women' and features a blended family". NBC News . Retrieved November 28, 2020.