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Little Women

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Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. [1]

76 relations: American Civil War, Amos Bronson Alcott, August Wilson Theatre, Aunt, BBC, Bildungsroman, CBS, Chaplain, Charles Dickens, Columbia Pictures, Coming-of-age story, Concord, Massachusetts, David Lowell Rich, Debutante, Emma Stone, Film, G. K. Chesterton, George Cukor, Gillian Armstrong, Girl next door, Greta Gerwig, Heidi Thomas, Houston Grand Opera, Internet Archive, Jo's Boys, John Bridge Pratt, Lawrence, Kansas, Lea Thompson, Literary realism, Little Men, Little Women (1917 film), Little Women (1918 film), Little Women (1933 film), Little Women (1949 film), Little Women (1950 TV series), Little Women (1958 TV series), Little Women (1970 TV series), Little Women (1978 film), Little Women (1981 TV series), Little Women (1994 film), Little Women (2017 TV series), Little Women (musical), Little Women (opera), Louisa May Alcott, Mansion, Massachusetts, Mervyn LeRoy, Meryl Streep, Military service, National Education Association, ..., NPR, Orchard House, Pastor, Pneumonia, Poland, Rajeev Khandelwal, Richard Adler, Roberts Brothers (publishers), Rukhsar Rehman, Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Elbert, Scarlet fever, School Library Journal, Serial (radio and television), Silent film, Simone Singh, Surveen Chawla, Tales of Little Women, The Big Read, The Wayside, Timothée Chalamet, United Kingdom, Washington, D.C., YouTube, 1868 in literature, 1869 in literature. Expand index (26 more) »

American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

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August Wilson Theatre

The August Wilson Theatre, located at 245 West 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, is a Broadway theatre.

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Aunt

An aunt is a person who is the sister, half-sister, step-sister, or sister-in-law of a parent, or the wife of one's uncle, but can also be an affectionate title for an older nurturing woman.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bildungsroman

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman ("bildung", meaning "education", and "roman", meaning "novel"; English: "novel of formation, education, culture"; "coming-of-age story") is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is extremely important.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Chaplain

A chaplain is a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, school, business, police department, fire department, university, or private chapel.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Coming-of-age story

In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature and film that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood ("coming of age").

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Concord, Massachusetts

Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States.

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David Lowell Rich

David Lowell Rich (August 31, 1920 – October 21, 2001) was an American film director and producer.

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Debutante

A debutante or deb (from the French débutante, "female beginner") is a girl or young woman of an aristocratic or upper-class family who has reached maturity and, as a new adult, comes out into society at a formal "debut".

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Emma Stone

Emily Jean Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.

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George Cukor

George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director.

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Gillian Armstrong

Gillian May Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an award-winning Australian feature film and documentary director, who specializes in period drama.

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Girl next door

The girl next door is a young female stock character who is described as "sweet, ordinary and caring".

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Greta Gerwig

Greta Celeste Gerwig (born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, writer, and director.

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Heidi Thomas

Heidi Thomas (born 13 August 1962, Garston, Liverpool, Lancashire) is an English screenwriter and playwright.

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Houston Grand Opera

Houston Grand Opera (HGO), located in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1955 by German-born impresario Walter Herbert and Houstonians Elva Lobit, Edward Bing, and Charles Cockrell.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Jo's Boys

Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886.

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John Bridge Pratt

John Bridge Pratt (June 16, 1833 – November 27, 1870) was the husband of Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt, the elder sister of novelist Louisa May Alcott.

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Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County and sixth largest city in Kansas.

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Lea Thompson

Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress, director, and television producer.

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Literary realism

Literary realism is part of the realist art movement beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature (Stendhal), and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin) and extending to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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Little Men

Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871.

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Little Women (1917 film)

Little Women is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Daisy Burrell, Mary Lincoln and Minna Grey.

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Little Women (1918 film)

Little Women is a lost 1918 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and written by Anne Maxwell based upon the novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott.

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Little Women (1933 film)

Little Women is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film, directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee and Jean Parker.

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Little Women (1949 film)

Little Women is a 1949 American feature film with script and music taken directly from the earlier 1933 Hepburn version.

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Little Women (1950 TV series)

Little Women is a British television mini-series broadcast by the BBC from 1950 to 1951 in six parts.

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Little Women (1958 TV series)

Little Women is a 1958 British television mini-series based on the novel of the same name.

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Little Women (1970 TV series)

Little Women was a BBC television series in 1970, based on the well-known novel of the same name.

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Little Women (1978 film)

For other motion pictures of this title, see Little Women (disambiguation) Little Women is a 1978 American television miniseries directed by David Lowell Rich and based on the classic 1868 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott.

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Little Women (1981 TV series)

Little Women, also known as or, is a 1981 Japanese animated television series adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.

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Little Women (1994 film)

Little Women is a 1994 American family drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong.

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Little Women (2017 TV series)

Little Women is a 2017 BBC television historical period drama adaptation of the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott.

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Little Women (musical)

Little Women is a musical with a book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland.

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Little Women (opera)

Little Women (1998) is the first opera written by American composer Mark Adamo to his own libretto after Louisa May Alcott's tale of growing up in New England after the American Civil War, Little Women.

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).

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Mansion

A mansion is a large dwelling house.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987) was an American film director, film producer, author, and occasional actor.

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Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress.

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Military service

Military service is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, whether as a chosen job or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription).

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National Education Association

The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest professional interest group in the United States.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Orchard House

Orchard House is a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts, US.

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Pastor

A pastor is an ordained leader of a Christian congregation.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Rajeev Khandelwal

Rajeev Khandelwal (born 16 October 1975) is an Indian television and film actor, singer and host.

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Richard Adler

Richard Adler (August 3, 1921 – June 21, 2012) was an American lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.

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Roberts Brothers (publishers)

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Rukhsar Rehman

Rukhsar Rehman is an Indian film and television actress.

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Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Una Ronan (born 12 April 1994) is an Irish and American actress.

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Sarah Elbert

Sarah Elbert (born 5 January 1936) is an American literary historian.

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Scarlet fever

Scarlet fever is a disease which can occur as a result of a group A ''streptococcus'' (group A strep) infection.

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School Library Journal

The School Library Journal is a monthly magazine with articles and reviews for school librarians, media specialists, and public librarians who work with young people.

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Serial (radio and television)

In television and radio programming, a serial has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Simone Singh

Simone Singh (born 10 November 1974) is an Indian actress.

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Surveen Chawla

Surveen Chawla is an Indian film actress and dancer.

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Tales of Little Women

, also simply known as Little Women, is a 1987 Japanese animated television series adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, produced by Nippon Animation.

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The Big Read

The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation's best-loved novel of all time.

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The Wayside

The Wayside is a historic house in Concord, Massachusetts.

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Timothée Chalamet

Timothée Hal Chalamet (born December 27, 1995) is an American actor.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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1868 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1868.

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1869 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1869.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women

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