Little Women Podcast

By: Niina Pekantytär
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  • Little Women Podcast is an ongoing series of video essays, articles and podcast episodes that examines the intersections in Louisa May Alcott´s Little Women.
    Hosted by Alcott essayist Niina Pekantytär. Regular visits from literal scholars and Little Women fans.
    Copyright Niina Pekantytär
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Episodes
  • How Friedrich Helps Jo To Become A Writer (Chapter Friend With Christina Scott)

    How Friedrich Helps Jo To Become A Writer (Chapter Friend With Christina Scott)
    Jul 14 2023
    In Little Women, before Jo goes to New York, she publishes her first novel, which becomes a complete flop. This has never been adapted. After Jo has published her first, flop novel, she says to herself that she wishes she would have an "unbiased" person to help her with her writings. Another moment in Little Women, where we can see that Louisa May Alcott planned Friedrich's character very early on to be both Jo's love interest and the person who helps her to reach her full potential as a writer.

    Join Christine and I when we analyze the chapter "Friend".

    I am joined by Christina Scott. Christina is the wonderful host of the https://www.tumblr.com/joandfriedrich blog
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    44 mins
  • Jo and Friedrich Enter The Symposium (Chapter Friend) With Christina Scott

    Jo and Friedrich Enter The Symposium (Chapter Friend) With Christina Scott
    Jun 22 2023
    You can't believe how many Little Women fans I know and who have told me that the "Symposium" is their favorite part in Little Women! and guess what Symposium has never been adapted (not fully anyway). Christina and I of course love the symposium and were are here to talk about it. In Little Women, chapter "Friend" Jo enters a symposium with Friedrich. There is a philosophical debate about religion which agitates Jo a great deal but Friedrich becames her guiding light.

    I swear to you, this has always been the moment in the book where I personally believe that Jo began to fall in love with him, even if she didn't realize it herself yet.

    Join us to analyze this breathtakingly beautiful chapter.

    I am joined by Christina Scott. Christina is the wonderful host of the https://www.tumblr.com/joandfriedrich blog
    Bookshop.org https://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1535322&u=3142084&m=97137
    Start your own etsy shop and get your first 40 listings for free https://etsy.me/3oZe42c

    Join newsletter https://littlewomenchannel.substack.com/
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    49 mins
  • Jo March, Sensational Writer, Underpaid and Disposable (Chapter "Friend" With Christina Scott)

    Jo March, Sensational Writer, Underpaid and Disposable (Chapter "Friend" With Christina Scott)
    Jun 9 2023
    One of the things that never stops bothering me regarding Little Women, is the constant misrepresentation of chapter "Friend". In this chapter Jo is staying in New York and she is working for a sensational magazine called "Weekly Volcano". There are people who say that this makes Jo a "feminist" and that Friedrich is a "horrible person" because he doesn't like sensational stories. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the chapter, Jo calls these sensational stories "trash". She doesn't get a long with the editor who calls Jo a "disposable hack" and to top of this all Jo begins to get panic attacks caused by the stories she is writing. She is also being paid under minimum weight. People who hate Friedrich in this chapter should get their head checked, and also the name of the chapter is "Friend" for a reason.

    I am joined by Christina Scott. Christina is the wonderful host of the https://www.tumblr.com/joandfriedrich blog

    Start your own etsy shop and get your first 40 listings for free https://etsy.me/3oZe42c

    Join newsletter https://littlewomenchannel.substack.com/
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podcastinglittlewomen
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/littlewchannel
    Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/littlewomenchannel TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@littlewomenpodcast
    YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/2p8kmsz6
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    47 mins

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