Good Wives - A Sequel to Little Women

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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] If you end your delightful book with your heroine a spinster, no one will buy it,” the publisher says. National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" . Retrieved August 22, 2012.

In 2003 Little Women was ranked number 18 in The Big Read, a survey of the British public by the BBC to determine the "Nation's Best-loved Novel" (not children's novel); it is fourth-highest among novels published in the U.S. on that list. [42] Based on a 2007 online poll, the U.S. National Education Association listed it as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". [43] In 2012 it was ranked number 47 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily US audience. [44] Influence Laurie graduates from college, having put in the effort to do well in his last year with Jo's prompting. Amy is chosen over Jo to go on a European tour with her aunt. Beth's health is weak due to complications from scarlet fever and her spirits are down. While trying to uncover the reason for Beth's sadness, Jo realizes that Laurie has fallen in love. At first she believes it's with Beth, but soon senses it's with herself. Jo confides in Marmee, telling her that she loves Laurie like a brother and that she could not love him in a romantic way.a b c d e f g Cheever, Susan (2011). Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-6992-3. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, The Character of Jo March". American Masters. December 12, 2009 . Retrieved August 4, 2018.

Seppänen, Mirva (2009). Uudelleenkääntämishypoteesi ja lasten- ja nuortenkirjallisuus: Tarkastelussa Louisa M. Alcottin Little Women -teoksen neljä eri suomennosversiota[ Retranslation Hypothesis and Literature for Children and Young Adults: A Study of Four Finnish Versions of Louisa M. Alcott’s Little Women] (M.A. thesis) (in Finnish). Tampere University. pp.23–24. (includes English abstract) Alcott, Louisa (August 1, 2013). Little Women. ISBN 978-1-4516-8597-8. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) But Little Women's final twist is so subtle—and so intertwined with the mythology of Little Women—that it’s easy to overlook. However, Gerwig’s radical meta-twist is precisely what makes her adaptation of Little Women so special. The Houston Grand Opera commissioned and performed Little Women in 1998. The opera was aired on television by PBS in 2001 and has been staged by other opera companies since the premiere. [71] Little Women has been one of the most widely read novels, noted by Stern from a 1927 report in The New York Times and cited in Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays. [45] Ruth MacDonald argued that "Louisa May Alcott stands as one of the great American practitioners of the girls' novel and the family story." [46]

In parallel though, Gerwig shows us something else. Jo is alone, at a print shop, watching through a glass window like a mother peering into a hospital nursery as her novel – Little Women – is bound and embossed. It is the book that is placed in her empty hands, and she clutches it to her heart. 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 Heimberg, Martha (July 21, 2019). "TheaterJones | FIT Review: Jo & Louisa | Festival of Independent Theatres". TheaterJones.com . Retrieved September 26, 2019.

There was another musical version, entitled "Jo", with music by William Dyer and book and lyrics by Don Parks & William Dyer, which was produced off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre. It ran for 63 performances from February 12, 1964, to April 5, 1964. It featured Karin Wolfe (Jo), Susan Browning (Meg), Judith McCauley (Beth), April Shawhan (Amy), Don Stewart (Laurie), Joy Hodges (Marmee), Lowell Harris (John Brooke) and Mimi Randolph (Aunt March). Word comes that Mr. March is very ill with pneumonia and Marmee is called away to nurse him in Washington. Mr. Laurence offers to accompany her but she declines, knowing travel would be uncomfortable for the old man. Mr. Laurence instead sends John Brooke to do his business in Washington and help the Marches. While in Washington, Brooke confesses his love for Meg to her parents. They are pleased, but consider Meg too young to marry, so Brooke agrees to wait. What if you felt, when she gets her book, the way you generally feel about a girl getting kissed?” Gerwig has said. Alcott: 'Not The Little Woman You Thought She Was' ". NPR. December 28, 2009 . Retrieved August 22, 2013.Myriad Theatre & Film adapted the novel as a full-length play which was staged in London and Essex in 2011. [51]