and it’s fun to find other startling statements of Jo’s, such as “I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her in the family. But as such topics were considered requisite for novels marketed at young women of the time, Alcott faced a dilemma. And what a shame, cause the book makes a perfect sense for these two to be together, but not the movie. From a twenty-first century perspective, it’s obvious Beth suffers from severe social anxiety, and it says something about mental illness in the 19th century that the solution was not seen to be “find a way to fix Beth” but “find a way to adjust Beth’s environment so she won’t have to be placed in situations that make her anxious.

I read LITTLE WOMEN so many years ago and I was so young when I read it; but I remember, also, being very disappointed that Jo and Laurie did not end up together.I watched the film and there was a scene where Laurie proposed to Amy shorty after they meet abroad, and made a remarkable phylosophical speech, but then I flipped through the book to find the speech, it does not exist! All through the novel, Jo such an interesting character, has so much affection and love for Beth, such a flat character. This month also brought the paperback release of Anne Boyd Rioux’s Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters (Norton), which delves into the creation of the novel, and its legacy. BRADY, B/W Illustrated from Photos of Scenes in the Play ,, front pastedown has wear and PENCIL NAME BLANK PG.

It feels as though Louisa May Alcott changed her mind about what she was setting up in Part 1 (and I do agree with your reading of it, that there was a tremendous amount of connection and chemistry there! THICK COLOR ILLUSTRATED RAINBOW CLOTH BINDING CVR REPRESENTS AN ENTIRELY NEW PROCESS, VERY RARE, it is a story of the happy home life of four girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, drawn largely from the girlhood life of Miss Alcott and her sisters. I think Laurie would have given Jo the freedom to be herself, too, and perhaps with their mutual fiery nature they might have challenged each other to be and do even more. In 2010, Green graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design in Michigan with a BFA in Illustration.Tom's scrapbooks are always fascinating, full of photographs, notes and snippets of history that inspire his books, and this one is no different!

Nine captivating illustrations by American artist Rebecca Green, and a specially commissioned introduction by celebrated author Jane Gardam, acknowledge the novel’s enduring themes of human relationships and female empowerment. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places.I read my copy of Little Women to death, over and over and over, when I was a kid, and didn’t realize till years later that it was an abridged edition — the very same abridged edition pictured here, in fact. Laurie plays the piano and speaks French and his best friends become the March sisters, so he starts out by being somewhat gender ambiguous as well.