What’s Old is New Episode 8: Little Women
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Introduction
0:45 Nicole’s Little Women experiences
1:50 Does Little Women hold up, should it be kept in the classics canon?
4:15 The reading experience as children versus as adults
6:55 Jen’s odd 3rd grade complex
7:35 Amy’s book burning
9:45 Jo and Laurie, Laurie and Amy, Jo and the Professor
15:45 Meg
16:30 Beth
18:00 The relationship between the sisters
Little Women-related books
19:40 March by Geraldine Brooks
21:45 Bronson Alcott
22:30 March and Little Women and vegetarianism
25:35 Mr. March and Marmee
Chat with Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
30:00 Say ‘hi’ to Kelly, everyone!
31:00 Louisa’s opinion of her audience and her own work
36:50 Jo and the Professor
38:20 Kelly and Louisa
42:10 Kelly’s favorite Little Women characters, Mr. March and Marmee
47:15 Louisa’s choice to leave Mr. March out of Little Women
48:05 Bronson Alcott
56:40 Why is Little Women such an enduring classic?
1:00:00 Wrap up
