Jess and Kendyl discuss Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, remembering how they felt reading it in younger years and how their opinions have changed.
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SHOW NOTES:
Music by DropVox
Upcoming Adaptations
-Feb 13 (US and UK)
-Based on the novel by EL James
-Feb 13 (US), Jan 29 (UK)
-Based on the comic by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons
Main Discussion
Little Women
-By Louisa May Alcott
-Published in two volumes in 1868 and 69
-Followed by Little Men and then Jo’s Boys
Shout Outs
Darlingeyre17 on tumbr: “Love the music to the musical, especially this song. [Link to How I Am] I also grew up with the 1990s movie-Susan Sarandon is my surrogate mother and Amy is my spirit animal. ”
themarchfamilyletters on tumblr: “our showrunner’s personal favourite, the french intro to the 1987 anime adaptation. Sorry, she’s obsessed.”
The March Family Letters
-currently airing on Youtube
-Produced by Cherrydale Productions
-Showrunner: Sarah Shelson
-Director: Megan MacKay
-Starring Alex Kerr, Cassidy Civiero, Jessica Allen and Nicole Girth
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This episode really made me want to reread Little Women!–and also it made me wonder if the version I read growing up was abridged too, since I didn’t remember some of the stuff you talked about at all!
One thing, though. The March Family Letters isn’t a Pemberley Digital production. It’s being distributed by PD, but it’s being made by a Canadian production company called Cherrydale Productions.
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Thanks for letting us know! I put the production company in the show notes and we’ll make sure that we clarify that when we cover the series in the future.
If I remember correctly, the abridged version makes a lot of the same cuts that the movies do, so it can be really weird when you get into the unabridged. Like, Meg and Ned Moffat were almost a thing… I know we were talking about how quickly it seems the girls grow up in the book, but there is definitely a lot of interim stuff that goes on it their childhood that makes it more gradual.
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