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...safe to assume that Louisa May Alcott would have approved of this new screen version of Huckleberry Finn. "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses," she said about his raffish novel, "he had better stop writing." Seeming to take the prim spirit of her outrage for their shaping force, the people involved with this movie have sanitized Huck's language and turned him into a nearly perfect little gent...
...buried in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery where Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne are interred...
Perhaps it could be said that Alcott was an innate feminist. Although the late-19th century moral style at times makes any of her stories too tepid and saccharine for the grown-up little girl, there is much to recommend her philosophies and attitudes and her ways of incorporating them into an internally-consistent thesis. Her respect for women is basic and sound, and it pervades all of her works...
...element of Alcott's writing that makes it most difficult to get by her style and to her content is precisely that which makes her most valuable as a model for writers who wish to drive home points about the equality of women. Alcott is subtle. All of the conflicts she describes are buried deep in her characters and in the society she so realistically describes...
...Alcott's writing there is none of the "pseudo-liberal horseshit" that characterizes so much of today's writing by and for women and little girls. She never cries out "I am a woman, respect me, give me my rights." She goes farther than that. Her unconscious feminism grows out of a basic confidence. Her women can be feminine with integrity. They become what they want...