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18 unusual facts about Little Women


Blackie and Son

Notable books from The Kennett Library, a graded series of classics retold for schools, include: Kidnapped, Little Women, Westward Ho!, The Black Arrow, Wuthering Heights and Ben-Hur.

Dear My Girls

Dear My Girls is a manhwa by Kim Hee-eun, based on the characters of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.

El Palomo cojo

He is installed in the bedroom of his absent uncle Ramón and spends his time reading Little Women.

Ford Theatre

During this period, programming included adaptations of Little Women, with June Lockhart and Kim Hunter, and One Sunday Afternoon, with Burgess Meredith and Hume Cronyn.

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Sintram and his Companions and Undine are referred to in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; the character Jo mentions wanting them for Christmas in the first chapter of the book and finally receives them in chapter 22.

Glass Mask

When he sees Maya act as Beth in "Little Women" despite a high fever, he is impressed with her strong will and devotion to her acting dreams.

Harold Copping

His illustrations for non-religious books included Hammond's Hard Lines (1894), Miss Bobbie (1897), Millionaire (1898), A Queen Among Girls (1900), The Pilgrim's Progress (1903), Westward Ho! (1903), Grace Abounding (1905), Three School Chums (1907), Little Women (1912), Good Wives (1913), A Christmas Carol (1920) and Character Sketches from Boz (1924).

John Bridge Pratt

He was the basis for the character John Brooke in Little Women and Little Men.

Little Women

In 2003, the novel was listed at number 18 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

Madame Alexander

Other popular dolls have been 'Pussycat' a large baby doll dressed in fine coat and dress and a Mary, Queen of Scots Portrait Doll as well as Heidi, the characters from Little Women, and a series international dolls in native costumes.

Mina Van Winkle

She described automobile rides, with their problems for the girl, hip flasks, petting and all the other "failings" of the modern girl as an unsolvable problem for mothers who were trained in the philosophy of Little Women.

Murder of Polly Klaas

After Polly's death, Ryder starred in a film version of Little Women and dedicated it to Klaas's memory, since the novel had been Polly's favorite book.

Quadroon

In Little Women, a novel by Louisa M. Alcott, Mr and Mrs Bhaer take in a quadroon boy to the school they open.

Sherard Parker

In 2008, he appeared in the critically acclaimed adaptation of Louise M. Alcott's Little Women, playing the odd-ball Professor Bhaer at the Singapore Repertory Theatre.

Theatre of Dare

Recent performances include Little Shop of Horrors, Annie, Fools, The Diary of Anne Frank, Peter Pan, No Time For Sergeants, Bell, Book and Candle, The Gin Game, and Little Women the musical.

In 2009, just before the opening of Little Women the musical, the Theatre of Dare received a grant from the Outer Banks Community Foundation.

Thoreau-Alcott House

It was in this home that Louisa wrote her novel Jo's Boys (1886), a sequel to Little Women (1868).

Zheng Xiaocang

Zheng is also well known for his translation of American novels, especially his translation of Louisa May Alcott's works (including the Little Women, Little Men, etc.) are still considered as high quality and the best version.


Bonita Granville

Over the next couple of years she played uncredited supporting roles in such films as Little Women (1933) and Anne of Green Gables (1934) before playing the role of Mary in the film adaptation of Lillian Hellman's 1934 stage play The Children's Hour.

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father is a 2007 biography by John Matteson of Louisa May Alcott, best known as the author of Little Women, and her father, Bronson Alcott, an American Transcendentalist philosopher and the founder of the Fruitlands utopian community.

Indre Viskontas

Viskontas has performed as a soprano for numerous roles, including Beth in Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Kate in John Estacio’s Frobisher, Heart's Desire in Arthur Sullivan's The Rose of Persia and Aurelia in Purcell's Dioclesian.

Paddy Russell

She directed several television programmes between 1962 and 1981 and her work includes Out of the Unknown (1965), Late Night Horror (1968), Pere Goriot (1968), Little Women (1970), The Moonstone (1972) and The Omega Factor (1980).

PERIODS.

Semi-improvised and cinematic in their approach, their anachronistic style has been applied to various epochs (VIKING WIVES, PILGRIMS) and adaptations of literary classics such as East of Eden, Ethan Frome, Little Women, and Bright Lights, Big City.

Richwoods High School

RHS produces musicals in the spring time: in 2004, Damn Yankees, in 2005, Guys and Dolls, in 2006, Fiddler on the Roof, in 2007, The Boy Friend, in 2008 Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, in 2009, Little Women, and in 2010, Thoroughly Modern Millie.

The Penderwicks

The National Book Award citation compares the novel to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and E. Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers.

Work: A Story of Experience

Work: A Story of Experience, first published in 1873, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, set in the times before and after the American Civil War.