#amymarch

[lunasbookshelf4]

"Jo loved Laurie! they were meant to be!"

As much as I loved Laurie and Jo's dynamic, Jo never loved Laurie romantically, it's even clearer in the books. She did have an intense amount of love for him, but it was strictly platonical.

After Jo rejected Laurie and he was off abroad, she had a conversation with her mother where she stated that she didn't love him as she should but just wanted to be loved by him.

Jo only wanted to be loved by Laurie because of how lonely she felt, especially after the loss of Beth.

[zeroandvoid]

💓 Amy March moodboard 💓

[iloveb1ur]

Little Women is so much more than just "a little girls book"

Little women is so often discredited by many as just "a little girls book" but in my opinion it is so much more than that. there is so much beauty in this book and it explores complex issues such as female relationships, the nostalgia of childhood and how marriage has often been about any but love.

we can relate to the march sisters in so many different ways and that is the beauty of Little Women.

this week on The Confession Club podcast we talk all things little women and its messages, link above!!

[adoresholland]

Amy March scene in little women💕

[joandfriedrich]

Louisa May Alcott Wanted To Get Married

The controversial concept of feminism is a relatively new term that began to be employed at the end of the 19th century, and it is under debate still today what the term actually includes. To understand Louisa May Alcott´s views on marriage, we need to understand her transcendentalist views and women's rights movement ideas and laws regarding marriage and property.

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In the 19th century. Most marriages were made because of economical reasons, but what we often miss is that it was during Louisa May Alcott´s life, the women's rights movement, a growing sense of equality and the ideal of companionate marriage grew.

Marriage no longer was a choice made by a person's parents, but an individual choice with love and courtship increasing their presence. Louisa rejects a marriage of convenience, calling it along with any other, another endeavour to love without the true feelings "a mere shadow". While studying Louisa I have become more sceptical about whether her relationship towards the Little Women was really as spiteful as it has been framed to be.

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[amayaarellano]

I believe we have some power over who we love. It isn't something that just happens to a person.

Amy March ~ Little Women

[peter-pan-demonium]

haha, love it.

The AU I didn’t know I needed…

Bonus:

[alilyamongroses]

Hey im sorry i hope its ok i tahhed u in my post. If not i can delete. Once i tagged a non-moot in a post and they got really really angry with me so just wnat to apologise in advance

It’s totally fine!

[thecatsaesthetics]

I’m sorry this all happened to you, the tiktok is terrible

Don’t be. It’s honestly so funny.

Apparently they think @amymarched is my side blog and not my historical/cleopatra bestie.

[liliannasprereadmediathek]

[image description] Two images next to each other. On the left the characters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy being read to by their mother Marmie in a Christmas setting. On the right, Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy gathered around their mother Marmie all looking into different directions.

One question listeners: are you a Jo, Amy, Beth, or Meg? This episode, we’re discussing characters in the 1994 and 2019 versions of Little Women, and diving deep into subtextual readings and fan interpretations.

We’ll discuss disability, autistic, and queer readings, and try to answer our question: is Little Women a ‘story for every generation’, and why is it so popular?

To listen, just head to the link in our bio, or find us wherever you find podcasts 🎧 

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[falling autumn leaves emoji; leaf emoji; stack of books emoji; Christmas tree emoji; falling green leaves emoji; tree emoji; snowflake emoji; snowman emoji; scroll emoji; handwriting emoji; feather emoji]

📝 Shownotes: 📝

📼 Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://youtu.be/SMFll3aIbmo)

Primary Sources:

📚 “Little Women” (1868, 1869) by Louisa May Alcott

🎞️ “Little Women” (1933) (dir. George Cukor, 📜 Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman)

🎞️ “Little Women” (1949) (dir. Mervyn LeRoy, 📜 Andrew Solt, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman)

🎞️ “Little Women” (1994) (dir. Gillian Armstrong, 📜 Robin Swicord)

🎞️ “Little Women” (2019) (dir. + 📜 Greta Gerwig) (https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/little-women-by-greta-gerwig.pdf)

📺 “Little Women” (2017) (dir. Vanessa Caswill,  📜 Heidi Thomas) (Masterpiece: PBS)

Secondary Sources:

📰 “Life Magazine: Little Women: A Story for Every Generation” (Meredith Corp., 2020)

📜 ‘Everything depend[s] on the fashion of narration’: Women Writing Women Writers in Short Stories of the Fin-de-Siècle (Bryony Randall) 📜 “The New ‘Little Women’ Makes Space For Jo’s Queerness” (Shannon Keating) (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/little-women-greta-gerwig-saoirse-ronan-jo-march-queer) 📜 “The New Little Women Basically Proves Jo March is Queer” (Michelle Hyun Kim) (https://www.them.us/story/little-women-greta-gerwig-jo-march-queer) 📜 Amatonormativity (https://medium.com/the-science-scholar/opinion-amatonormativity-the-damaging-pedestal-of-romantic-love-d70cc0585b0f) 📜 “The Real Reason Hairspray Was Banned On The Little Women Set” (Avery Stone) (https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/12/9114384/little-women-movie-hair-makeup-interview) 📼 “Little Women: Laurie & Jo” (https://youtu.be/osdVRusNGgg) 🎞️ “Divergent” (2014) (dir. Neil Burger, 📜 Evan Daugherty, Vanessa Taylor) 📼 “Greta Gerwig, Representation, and the Universal Girl” (https://youtu.be/0p-cBSqIDbQ) 📼 “Why Neurodivergent People Relate to Jo March” (https://youtu.be/x-j5XK1wpyo)

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[iloveb1ur]

the three march girls ( jo, amy and meg ) who survive into adulthood represent three different pathways women could take at the time.

marry for love and a traditional family (meg)

marry for security (amy)

marry to not be alone (jo)

all three girls have distinctive personalities and are different and this wide representation of women is so rare in a world where women seemingly can only be one dimensional, thats what makes little women so good.

all the girls are flawed but realistic and relatable.

we discuss this and more on the confession club, link above!!

[lillietc]

Another personal favorite.

[joandfriedrich]

Louisa May Alcott Wanted To Get Married

In Little Women, there are characters with certain real-life counterparts. For example, Marmee was based on Abba Alcott and Meg on Anna Alcott, but Friedrich and Laurie are mixed characters that are based on several people in Louisa´s life. Laurie had several real-life counterparts. Louisa´s good friend Al Whitman, who she acted with within the Concord Theatrical Society. Alf was a good friend of Louisa´s sister May as well. Next-door neighbour, Julian Hawthorn is also considered to be one of the real-life Laurie and he had a teenage crush on May. Ladislas "Laddie" Wisniewski was a 22-year-old composer who Louisa met in Poland when she was working as a companion to an invalid woman called Anna Weld.

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Ladislas has been described to be a flirtatious prankster, and he referred to Louisa as his "little mama". Ladislas had tuberculosis and Louisa nursed him. It would seem that there was something romantic going on between them and then there was a conflict, for Louisa´s diary markings are violently scratched. Some Alcott scholars have speculated that Ladislas was flirting with Miss Weld.

There's very little known about Ladislas. He did beat tuberculosis and we know that he end up marrying and having two children. What is noticeable is that all the real-life Lauries were much younger than Louisa, even though in the book Laurie, is a few months older than Jo, for Jo, always remains a boy, even as an adult. Laurie refers to himself as the first boy Jo ever raised.

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[amayaarellano]

I have loved you ever since I have known you Jo. I couldn't help it. And I tried to show you and you wouldn't let me which is fine but I must make you hear now. Give me an answer because I cannot go on like this any longer. I gave up billiards, I gave up everything you didn't like. I'm happy I did. It's fine and I waited and I never complained because I- you know I figured you'd love me Jo.

Theodore Laurence ~ Little Women

[calamitoustide]

Little women mention RAAAAAH

I haven't rewatched it in so long but I need to I really really do here's a beth and amy edit i saw earlier just for you <3