Little Women at 150
Special Issue in Legacy 36.1 (2019)
“In honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, the editors of Legacy invited a handful of scholars in the field to reflect on the personal, scholarly, or pedagogical significance of the novel.”
– Introduction by Jennifer Putzi
Contents
Little Women at 150: Introduction (pp. 87-88)
Jennifer Putzi
Playing Pilgrims (pp. 89-90)
María Carla Sánchez
“[Even] Beth’s stage-struck!”: Theatrical Little Women (pp. 91-92)
Anne K. Phillips
Jo’s Invisible Sisters (pp. 93-94)
Barbara McCaskill
Little Women, Made Small (pp. 95-96)
Laura M. Stevens
Her Bosom Enemy (pp. 97-98)
Cynthia Davis
Frado, Linda, Ellen, and Iola (pp. 99-100)
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
My Meg’s Queer Turn (pp. 101-102)
Jean M. Lutes
Doing Nothing (pp. 103-104)
Alexandra Socarides
“Experiments”; or, “Housekeeping ain’t no joke” (pp. 105-106)
Lorrayne Carroll
The Death of Pip (pp. 107-108)
Donna M. Campbell
“Hope, and Keep Busy”: Little Women and Critical Pedagogy in the Era of Trump (pp. 109-110)
Randi Lynn Tanglen
Amy’s Dark Night (pp. 111-112)
Gregory Eiselein
Little Women‘s Literary Lessons (pp. 113-114)
Sari Edelstein
In Defense of Young Balloons (pp. 115-116)
Katherine Adams
Serious Literature (pp. 117-118)
Catherine Keyser
Surprise, Surprise (pp. 119-120)
Deborah Gussman
The Magic Combination of Family and Books: Jo Lighting the Way (pp. 121-122)
Anne Boyd Rioux