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"I will do something by and by," Louisa May Alcott wrote as an adult in the voice of her youthful self. "I'll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won't."
Alcott would indeed become rich and famous in her lifetime for writing Little Women. In the 141 years since its first publication, the beloved young-adult novel has never been out of print, and has inspired plays, films, TV series, an opera, a Broadway musical, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Next up: the literary remix Little Women and Werewolves, by the publisher of the bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Now, with Alcott herself on the verge of a period of cultural ubiquity almost equal to her most famous novel, we can get better insight into whether she ever achieved that last goal: to be happy. On Dec. 28, the PBS series American Masters will portray her life story in a 90-minute documentary. The special's screenwriter, Harriet Reisen, has written an affiliated biography, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, published this week. The Louisa lovefest continues next spring with the release of a novel called The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, which imagines the writer choosing between a love affair and a career in the summer of her 23rd year. This coincidental cluster of new works gives us greater insight into Alcott's interior life, which she protected so fiercely from public view during her lifetime.
Reisen's biography convincingly casts her subject as a proto-feminist heroine. Alcott organized reading groups about the importance of suffrage and circulated petitions on the topic. She was the first woman in Concord, Mass. to register to vote (in a town election decades before the 19th amendment was passed). In a 1868 article in the New York Ledger, she advised young women that "liberty is a better husband than love to many of us." A bad marriage, she wrote, "is poorly repaid by the barren honor of being called 'Mrs.' instead of 'Miss.'" She pursued professional success relentlessly, churning out novels for children and adults, along with scores of short stories, poems, nonfiction sketches, essays, and pseudonymous potboilers she called her "blood and thunder" work. She openly took pride in her earning power: When her poem about Henry David Thoreau was published in the Atlantic in 1863, she wrote, "I liked the $10 nearly as well as the honor of being a 'new star' & 'a literary celebrity.' "
That unsentimental spirit comes across in Jo March, the headstrong, tomboyish protagonist of Little Women. Jo spunkily lops off her hair for cash, spurns a marriage proposal, longs to be a writer, and moves from a small town to New York City. Jo has often and rightly been called a feminist heroine. Reisen characterizes Jo as her creator's self-acceptance personified: "After years of trying to curb her pride, control her impulses, [and] rein in her wild side ... Louisa finally gave herself approval in the sublime creation of Jo March."
But Jo, like Alcott, eventually finds her girlish ambition tempered by harsh lessons about adult submission. When Little Women’s first half was published as a stand-alone novel, readers clamored to find out what became of the four March girls. So Alcott’s publisher requested a sequel. (The two halves are now sold as a unit here, though they're still published separately in England.) The obvious choices would have been to let Jo remain single or to match her with Laurie, the dreamy boy next door.
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