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The story opens in Concord, Massachusetts, just a few days before Christmas in the year 1860. The four March girls – motherly Meg (age 16), boyish Jo (age 15), frail yet pious Beth (age 13), and elegant Amy (age 12) – live alone with their mother, Mrs. March.
Sep 18, 2018 · Why Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women’ Endures. The author of a new book about the classic says the 19th-century novel contains life lessons for all, especially for boys
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Dec 25, 1994 · Little Women: Directed by Gillian Armstrong. With Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis. The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.
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In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, with their father away serving in the Civil War, the women of the March family--the loving matriarch, Marmee, and her four daughters, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth--are left all alone to fend for themselves.
Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on their own terms – is both timeless and ...
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Nov 25, 2019 · ‘Little Women’: Film Review If every generation deserves its own 'Little Women' adaptation, Greta Gerwig has done this one proud with a lively — if oddly nonlinear — retelling.
Little Women is a 1994 American coming-of-age historical drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong.The screenplay by Robin Swicord is based on Louisa May Alcott's 1868–69 two-volume novel of the same title, the fifth feature film adaptation of the classic story.
