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Video Essay: Jo Marries Goethe - Reflections on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Jo and Goethe

Video Essay: Jo Marries Goethe - Reflections on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Jo and Goethe | Writers & Books | Scoop.it

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There was a real-life Friedrich Bhaer. In fact, you can find him from all of Louisa May Alcott´s writings. Read my full- research cultural and historical evolution of Friedrich Bhaer: http://www.fairychamber.com/blog/evolution-of-friedrich-bhaer

The Real-Life Friedrich Bhaer Video Essay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlHSe5U423A

Love and Sex in Little Women Video essay: https://youtu.be/mzuK9xH54KQ

Friedrich and Jo essay collection: https://tinyurl.com/qumo5kv
Amy and Laurie essay collection: https://tinyurl.com/yx5tdxnn
My Little Women art corner https://tinyurl.com/upqqrj5

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I love this podcast! The host knows more, digs deeper, and makes better connections than any other LMA/Little Women researcher I’ve seen. I would consider myself a big LMA/Little Women fan, and I’d say I know more about the two than the average person (or average fan even), but I always learn something new listening to this podcast. I’m the admin for “The Little Women Book Club” on Facebook, and our members all really love this podcast. If you’re an LMA/Little Women fan you will love it, too!

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Jen

As a long-time, die-hard Little Women fan, I LOVE this podcast! I stumbled upon it while doing research for a book series I was working on, and I am addicted! Niina is super knowledgeable in all things LW, from the book(s) to the movies and author Louisa May Alcott’s real life. I love that the discussions are based on the book and highlight the differences (sometimes controversial) between the original and newer adaptations. Highly recommended for anybody who loves getting lost in the world of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March.

Paola

I love your Little Women content. Thank you for sharing all your studies and research! I read the book earlier this year for the first time and I fell in love with Jo and Fritz’s relationship. I’m so glad I binged listened to your podcast to further my love for them. It also kickstarted an obsession with LMA too, she’s such an interesting woman and moved around in so many circles.

I can’t believe there are people that still don’t get Jo and Fritz. While reading I found it very obvious that Jo was falling for him even if Jo hadn’t realized it yet herself (I mean the girl didn’t shut up about his hands and how nice he is!). My heart melted at the moment when it says (rephrasing here:) ‘if Jo could’ve seen the Professor kissing the picture of her before going to bed, she would’ve known why he was visiting her hometown’ 😭 I see here Jo’s influence on Friedrich. Being with her and knowing her, encourages him to be more active, take initiative to things unknown, go find answers to his questions, try finding another job for bettering his nephew’s life.

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A Story Ending? Historic San Francisco Bookstore May Face Closure

A Story Ending? Historic San Francisco Bookstore May Face Closure | Writers & Books | Scoop.it

For more than 50 years Marcus Books has served as a cornerstone to showcase the great literary achievement of African-American writers. The store gained its fame by hosting African-American authors, poets, and musicians, such as Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm X, Earth Wind & Fire, Dave Chapelle, Toni Morrison, and Queen Latifah. The Richardsons created a place where people could learn about and enjoy Afrocentric culture, history, politics and literature.

 

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Essay: On Montaigne and his Essays - by Phyllis Rose

Essay: On Montaigne and his Essays - by Phyllis Rose | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Montaigne makes learning look good. The pleasure and the point of the essays is less in any insight than in the abundance and lucidity of insight, less in any story than in the movement of the mind between one story and another, from antiquity to the present, from this world to the antipodes. The essays offer an image of a mind darting comfortably out from the center of its own experience, experience both lived and acquired through books, with equal access to near and far, distant and present, in its search for self-knowledge and equilibrium.
bobbygw's insight:
A wonderful, thoughtful and insightful essay by the always excellent writer Phyllis Rose. Among her outstanding works are biographies of Virginia Woolf (Woman of Letters) and Josephine Baker (Jazz Cleopatra), her essay collection on women writers and their works (Writing of Women: Essays in a Renaissance), and her reflections on Proust's serial novel (The Year of Reading Proust).
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