During her civil war service as a nurse, Louisa took care of the wounded soldier John Suhre. John who was a German descendant made an ever-lasting impression on Louisa and she captured his character to her first successful novel Hospital sketches. What we know about John is that he had…

When people study Louisa May Alcott´s life, were they then hobbyists or scholars people choose an area that they are interested and one of the areas that I study is the literature that Louisa May Alcott liked to read and how these certain storylines from these books can be found…

Little Women Bhaer goes to work to give Jo a home, Laurie says he gives up Billiards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3V_iPfAN3E&ab_channel=LittleWomenChannel The differences between the two proposals are pretty impressive, but in my life, I don´t know any Little Women adaptation where Laurie cries to Jo and stumps his feet. “You can´t say…

The purest form of love is to love the full reality of the other person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzuK9xH54KQ&ab_channel=LittleWomenChannel She did not hear him cross the courtyard beyond, nor see him pause in the archway that led from the subterranean path into the garden. He stood a minute looking at her with new…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzuK9xH54KQ&ab_channel=LittleWomenChannel I am re-reading Anne of the Island and I noticed a major difference between the novel and the 1985 series. There are lots of people who ship Anne and Diana because of the 1985 series and I have written about it earlier. In the series, Anne is surprisingly upset…

princesssarisa I’ve been skimming through my mom’s copy of John Matteson’s Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. Maybe someday I’ll read the whole thing. …

In many ways, the 1933 film is loyal to the books but it shows the characters through the 1930s lens. This happens with every Little Women film. They are always bound to their time. Both Jo and Laurie lack the aggressive outbursts they have in the books. Douglas Montgomery´s Laurie…

mareebird asked: Why do you think so many film adaptations of the novel make those changes to Bhaer, Jo, and Laurie’s timelines and personalities? Do you think it’s simply for the sake of streamlining things or because of other more complex storytelling challenges? …

princesssarisa Yesterday I came across my local library’s old VHS copy of the 1949 film version of Little Women. The synopsis on the back cover claims that all four March sisters fall in love with Laurie and paints the whole story as revolving around their competition for him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzuK9xH54KQ&ab_channel=LittleWomenChannel *eye…