#little women

[vanpalmerenthusiast]

jo march

[hayaomiyazaki]

Little Women — 1994 dir. Gillian Armstrong adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott

[papes-and-capes]

“Swingy Legs”

[haileyyscomet]

"i think i shall be homesick for you even in heaven" - beth march °˖➴

[joandfriedrich]

Me, at Greta Gerwig: 👀

Movie of a centuries-old novel: since the novel has ProBlEmaAtIc elements, we will rewrite it to make it more appealing for our modern audience!

Me: then how did you end up being even less progressive and feminist than the original source? And you missed the point the author was trying to make too!

Movie of a centuries-old novel: we have sassy and tomboyish female characters, what are you talking about?

[whenthegoldrays]

“he hadn’t a really handsome feature in his face, except his beautiful teeth”

“his beautiful teeth—his only beautiful feature—breaking out with a white gleam upon the red-brown countenance”

Jo March describing Friedrich Bhaer // Molly Gibson’s assessment of Roger Hamley

[literary-melancholy]

Jo March, Little Women

[soupexpertt]

I really like this russian edition of classic books. Letting famous artists do the covers in YA style was such a simple but clever decision. According to the recent study the number of teenage readers increased, possibly thanks to these covers. I own traditional classics with blank covers but if I ever see one of these in the wild, it’ll probably make me go feral.

Here are some of my favs:

Dracula (art by Renibet)

2.Jane Eyre (art by Ulunii)

3. Little women (art by чаки чаки)

4. The Idiot (the hedgehog-omg-) (art by Xinshi)

5. Pride and Prejudice (art by Cactusute)

6. War and Peace (art by Xinshi)

7. Wuthering Heights (art by Renibet)

8. The Great Gatsby (art by NIKEL)

9. Frankenstein (art by Iren Horrors)

10. Crime and Punishment (art by REDwood)

11. Anna Karenina (art by Ulunii)

12. The Cherry Orchard (art by lewisite)

13. The Master and Margarita (art by Renibet)

[achillieus]

what a shame doctors don’t prescribe vacation to secluded seaside towns like they used to

[cat-in-a-mech-suit]

Transmasculinity Throughout Time: Lou Alcott

Yes, you heard me. There is substantial evidence that the author of Little Women was in fact a transgender man! He actually didn’t go by the name that Little Women was published under, with family and friends he would go by Lou, Louy, or LM. His children called him “papa” and “father” and his father, Bronson Alcott, called him his son. He said in 1882, “I am more than half persuaded that I am a man’s soul, put by some freak of nature into a woman’s body.�� As a child, he said in a journal, “I don’t care much for girls things. People think I’m wild and queer.” He would pass as a man at masked parties for fun, and delighted in people’s reactions. For his entire life, he expressed this identification as a man, and the character of Jo in Little Women was in part a self insert character based on this. So why don’t we hear about him as a trans man? Well, it’s just not convenient for most people to believe that a beloved book about girls becoming women was written by a man.

[miss-carter]

LITTLE WOMEN 2019 | dir. Greta Gerwig

[elainiisms]

*me at the club* so does anyone wanna discuss queer undertones in classic literature?

[jakeperalta]

★ countdown to christmas (take two) ★ day 8 of 24: little women (2019)

[pig-mania]

me

[carricfisher]

Little Women dir. Greta Gerwig | 2019