The 2018–2019 sesquicentennial of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women saw the release of an Oscar-nominated film adaptation directed by Greta Gerwig (2019) and a widely-reviewed indie bestseller by Anne Boyd Rioux titled Amy, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of “Little Women” and Why It Still Matters (2018). Clearly, the novel retains stature in the public consciousness; my own teaching of a course on Little Women in spring 2020 persuaded me that young women continue to find the novel moving and meaningful in their lives. Little Women at 150, a collection of eight original essays edited by Daniel Shealy, joins the discussion marking the novel's publication anniversary and includes a lead essay by Pulitzer-Prize winning author John Matteson, posthumous essays by Joel Myerson and Beverly Lyon Clark, and five additional essays by notable Alcott scholars. Noting that Little Women is judged to be “one of the first realistic novels for...
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January 01 2023
Little Women at 150
Little Women at 150
. Edited by Daniel Shealy. Jackson
: Univ. Press of Mississippi
, 2022
. 228
pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $30.00.American Literary Realism (2023) 55 (2): 187–188.
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Theresa Strouth Gaul; Little Women at 150. American Literary Realism 1 January 2023; 55 (2): 187–188. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/19405103.55.2.09
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