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I ragazzi di Jo by Louisa May Alcott5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alcott is no longer regarded as a sentimental author for girls, but as a pioneering writer of the first rank. In doing so, she is drawing from the wealth of new scholarship and full-length biographical works devoted to Alcott. Gerwig’s Little Women was not the first to film in Concord, a 1918 silent version has that distinction, but it does incorporate aspects of Alcott’s real life to an unprecedented degree. Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts “It was such a gift to be there, steeped in the place. “I know families like that, where they let the kids write on the walls,” she said, in a panel following a screening of the film in late October. At the Concord, Massachusetts, museum that housed Louisa May Alcott and her family in the 1860s, they’ll find the flowered mural May (who inspired the book’s character Amy) painted on the wall over Louisa’s writing desk, and a gnarled pillow that “Lu,” like Jo March, used to indicate her mood.įor Greta Gerwig, writer and director of the spirited new film adaptation of Little Women, shooting the movie in Concord proved key to imagining Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth. Visitors who flock to Orchard House in search of some sign of their beloved March sisters of Little Women fame won’t be disappointed. ![]()
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