Category: Women and Gender
“Why Little Women Endures” The Sesquicentennial of a Best Seller of the Reconstruction Era
The first volume of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was published in 1868 and the second came out 150 years ago in 1869. The…
Smithsonian: New “Little Women” Brings Aspects of Alcott’s Life to the Screen
Louisa May Alcott’s real life makes an appearance on the screen as it is incorporated into the new movie version of Little Women. The new…
New Yorker’s David Remnick Interviews Greta Gerwig on “Little Women” Film
Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women” will be in theaters next week. Gerwig was interviewed recently by New Yorker editor David Remnick. She told him…
Book Review: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868 and 1869). How can you review a book on its 150th anniversary that 90% of your female…
How “Little Women” Got Big from The New Yorker
The New Yorker had an interesting article on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Little Women was published in 1868 and 1869 and this is its…
Slate Reviews “Little Women,” Says It Is Best Movie Version Ever
Little Women will not be in the theaters until Christmas, but the reviews are starting to appear and they are generally quite good. While there…
“Dear Harriet…Your Friend Frederick Douglass” A Letter to Harriet Tubman 1868
In 1868, friends of Harriet Tubman raised money to aid the former slave in keeping her home in Auburn, N.Y. Frederick Douglass, who lived in…
Book Review: They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers published by Yale University Press (2019) 320 pages. $30.00…
CBS Sunday Morning Visits the Slavery and Reconstruction Sites of Harriet Tubman
CBS Sunday Morning has a nice travel piece visiting the sites of Harriet Tubman’s life in slavery in Maryland and freedom in Auburn, N.Y. CBS…
NY Times Looks at Why “Little Women,” the Bestseller of the Reconstruction Era, Will Come to the Movie Screen This Christmas
The best-selling American novel of the Reconstruction Era, Little Women, will be coming to the Big Screen for Christmas. The New York Times has an…