![]() ![]() Barnard, a literary double life not discovered until the 1940s. Most surprising is that Alcott led, anonymously and under the pseudonym A.M. Raised among reformers, iconoclasts and Transcendentalists, the intellectual protégé of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, Alcott was actually a free thinker, with democratic ideals and progressive values about women – a worldly careerist of sorts. Her reputation as a morally upstanding New England spinster, reflecting the conventional propriety of mid-19th century Concord, is firmly established. Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, is an almost universally recognized name. ![]() Three-time Obie winner Elizabeth Marvel as Louisa May Alcott in American Masters’ biography of the author of Little Women. The film features dialogue taken exclusively from writings or firsthand reports of conversations on PBSįilm stars Three-time Obie winner Elizabeth Marvel as Louisa May Alcott and Tony winner and Oscar nominee Jane Alexander as Alcott’s first biographer, Ednah Dow Cheney American Masters, The Woman Behind ‘Little Women,’ airing Sunday, May 20 at 10 p.m. ![]()
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