Whats Old is New Episode 11: Interview with Gabrielle Donnelly, author of The Little Women Letters
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Gabrielle Donnelly is an author and journalist formerly of London, now living in Los Angeles. The Little Women Letters is her fifth book.
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0:10 Introducing Gabrielle and The Little Women Letters
1:20 In the Little Women universe
2:00 Gabrielle’s past with Little Women (in which Jen laughs triumphantly in reference to our Little Women show)
4:00 Leaving out Beth
5:25 Louisa May Alcott hates the Irish
7:00 Striving for selflessness
11:15 Why Little Women?
13:00 Keeping the modernisms out of Jo’s letters
15:30 What would LMA write?
19:00 Gabrielle’s favorite Louisa May Alcott works
22:45 Continuing on with the March family
24:45 Wrap-up
