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Cronkhite Center to Sponsor Louisa May Alcott Presentation...
...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...
...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...
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...