BBC Radio 4 „In our time“: „Little Women“

„Melvyn Bragg and guests dis­cuss Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 nov­el, cred­it­ed with start­ing the new genre of young adult fic­tion. When Alcott (1832–88) wrote Lit­tle Women, she only did so as her pub­lish­er refused to pub­lish her father’s book oth­er­wise and as she hoped it would make mon­ey. It made Alcott’s for­tune. This com­ing of age sto­ry of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March, each over­com­ing their own moral flaws, has delight­ed gen­er­a­tions of read­ers and was so pop­u­lar from the start that Alcott wrote the sec­ond part in 1869 and fur­ther sequels and spin-offs in the com­ing years. Her work has inspired count­less direc­tors, com­posers and authors to make many reimag­ined ver­sions ever since, with the sis­ters played by film actors such as Kather­ine Hep­burn, Eliz­a­beth Tay­lor, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Kirsten Dun­st, Saoirse Ronan and Emma Wat­son.
With Brid­get Ben­nett (Pro­fes­sor of Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture and Cul­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leeds), Erin Forbes (Senior Lec­tur­er in African Amer­i­can and U.S. Lit­er­a­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol), and Tom Wright (Read­er in Rhetoric and Head of the Depart­ment of Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Sus­sex).“ (BBC)

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