Word: alcotts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presentation, entitled "Meet Louisa May Alcott," is scheduled for Wednesday, February...
...Cronkhite Graduate Center will host a portrayal of Louisa May Alcott later this month as part of a fundraiser for Cambridge hunger and housing relief programs...
...Alcott will be portrayed by Marianne Donnelly, a prominent local actress who has received accolades from both the Boston Globe and the Washington Post...
Donnelly said the forty minute show will profile Alcott's childhood and services as a Civil War nurse, abolitionist leader, and woman's suffrage crusader...
...have to worry about Little Women. As a movie, it is exotic in all the wrong ways for today's market--all hoopskirts, candlelight, good deeds and genteel language. In Louisa May Alcott's world, heavy snowfall was a big-time special effect, sausages for breakfast made for a woozily joyful Christmas, and it was omnipresent death, not omnipresent divorce, that threatened childhood's serenity. Can a movie that faithfully reflects this life--at once harder and more innocent than life in America today--and does so without condescension, preachment or gross sentiment, make its way in these times...