Louisa May Alcott » Jo March http://www.alcottfilm.com book and film biographies of Louisa May Alcott Tue, 03 May 2011 22:08:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Alcott: ‘Not The Little Woman You Thought She Was’ http://www.alcottfilm.com/2010/02/24/npr-alcott-not-the-little-woman-you-thought-she-was/ http://www.alcottfilm.com/2010/02/24/npr-alcott-not-the-little-woman-you-thought-she-was/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:00:10 +0000 LMA Staff http://www.alcottfilm.com/?p=2080 Though many readers associate Alcott with the sweetness of Little Women, Reisen tells NPR‘s Linda Wertheimer, Alcott’s legacy — and Jo March’s, too — is really about the empowerment of women and girls around the world.

“You don’t grow up to walk two steps behind your husband when you’ve met Jo March,” says one Alcott fan.

In the time since Little Women was published in 1868, Reisen says she believes a countless number of women have — as Alcott put it — “resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.”

Listen here to the NPR interview

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