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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cronkhite Center to Sponsor Louisa May Alcott Presentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Community BRIEFS | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...just seen Little Women. Now dry your tears and read the book -- but which version? At your local bookstore you'll be confronted with the Louisa May Alcott classic as well as a new "novelization" based on the screenplay based on the classic. Below is a key passage from each. Can you tell which was written to please the marketing department at Columbia Pictures and which came from the pen of an impecunious schoolteacher, seamstress, nurse and domestic who grew up surrounded by fiery abolitionists and transcendentalists? (Warning! Don't read further if you're male and therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Quiz | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...Alcott wrote the second passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Quiz | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

There are two more Jo-Winona connections. For decades Ryder's parents have worked on a film script about Louisa May Alcott and her relationship with New York critic and short-story writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow. "My dad owns the Fitz Hugh Ludlow library," she says. One of Winona's treasured volumes is a red- bound children's book of Little Women. Inside the front cover are the words: THIS BOOK BELONGS TO POLLY KLAAS. Polly, the Petaluma child who in 1993 was kidnapped and brutally murdered, became a sacred preoccupation for Ryder; she put up a $200,000 reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Take a Bow, Winona | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...have to worry about Little Women. As a movie, it is exotic in all the wrong ways for today's market -- all hoop-skirts, candlelight 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 ours -- and does so without condescension, preachment or gross sentiment, make its way in our times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Transcendental Meditation | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

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