Little Women Podcast
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
August 14, 2025 • 43 mins
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 ...
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June 22, 2023 • 48 mins
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 bu...
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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 cha...
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May 25, 2023 • 47 mins
Chapter Friend is one of the most misadapted chapters in Little Women. This is the chapter where Jo is in New York and she begins to write sensational stories to a magazine called Weekly Volcano. Jo gets anxiety and even a mental breakdown with this work. Friedrich helps her to get out of this dark place. Unfortunately, majority of Little Women adaptations play it in a way "Jo is a feminist when she writes and Friedrich is a terrib...
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May 4, 2023 • 42 mins
Some of the criticism towards the 2019 Little Women, is the fact that a lot of the promotion of the film included several fatphobic comments from Gerwig regarding Friedrich's character. Obviously this is not ethical or morally correct. There is a problem within Little Women researh, because there are Alcott's scholars who dismiss Friedrich as a love interst for Jo because of fatphobia. Based on her diaries Louisa May Alcott seemed ...
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April 20, 2023 • 29 mins
This time Annabelle and myself are discussing about religion in Louisa May Alcott's novels and counting all the transcendentalist references in chapter "Sunday". Transcanscentalism was a nature-centric form of Christianity. A philosophy that Alcott practiced her entire life. In Little Men Nat sees a beautiful painting of Jesus and children. The frame is made of moss and pine cones, which intrigues him.
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April 6, 2023 • 45 mins
In this episode, my guest Annabelle continues our discussion of Little Men and the chapter "Sunday". Little Men is the direct sequel to Little Women. In this book, we meet many of Jo's and Friedrich's students and get to see how they run their school together. Wild boy Tommy Banks shows the new kid Nat around the school explaining things. In her diaries, Louisa wrote about her desire to start a school and we can see many of her own...
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March 23, 2023 • 45 mins
In this episode, my guest Annabelle and I dive into the world of Little Men. Little Men is the direct sequel to Little Women. We are introduced to a bunch of new characters and meet the old ones. Annabelle and I are reading and analyzing the chapter "Sunday". In this chapter Jo and Friedrich get a new student. He is an orphan boy called Nat and he is looking for a place to belong. Annabelle is here to talk to us about tender parent...
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March 10, 2023 • 44 mins
I am a day late and I'm sorry, I had a bit of technical difficulty. Fortunately, it is all solved now and the Little Women podcast is back on track. My guest Star is here to talk to us about Heroine's Journey and we are discussing the heroine's journey in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Jo's heroine's journey in Little Women. I was told that Gilbert's proposal to Anne in the 80s AOGG is almost exactly the same as La...
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February 23, 2023 • 42 mins
What an amazing episode! My guest Star is here to talk to us about the "heroine's journey". The heroine's journey came about in 1990 when Maureen Murdock, a Jungian psychotherapist and a student of Joseph Campbell, published a self-help book called The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness.
Star has been studying the heroine's journey through characters such as Jo March from Little Women and Anne Shirley from Anne of Green ...
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February 9, 2023 • 57 mins
Kymberly and I continue our analysis on the chapter "Laurie makes mischief and Jo makes peace". In this chapter Laurie sends love notes to Meg pretending to be his tutor John Brooke, and he thinks it is a harmless prank, which it is not. Kymberly and I are also discussing Laurie's development in the book series and his character arc and Marmee's influence on both him and the girls. Enjoy!
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January 26, 2023 • 59 mins
My guest Kymberly and I are dissecting the chapter "Laurie Makes Mischief and Jo makes peace". In this chapter, Laurie pretends to be his tutor John Brooke and forges love letters to Meg. He gets into a lot of trouble, but what is troublesome is Jo's maternal need to protect Laurie and her ignorance over Meg's pain. This and a lot more in this episode.
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January 12, 2023 • 66 mins
In Little Women the novel, after falling in love and marrying Amy, Laurie actually apologizes to Jo that he harassed her and made her feel uncomfortable. This apology of Laurie has never been adapted in Little Women movies. Sinem and I are also discussing Jo's loneliness and in chapters "Surprises" and "All alone" we get to see how she longs to find romance and start a family of her own. This is once again something that is often o...
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December 29, 2022 • 41 mins
I've got many requests to talk more about Jo's occasional not-like-the-other-girls attitude and how harmful it was for her (and how she grew out of it). Sinem and I will also be discussing about Jo's and Amy's relationship and how to the two sisters are actually quite similar in terms of their tempers and unconventionally.
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December 15, 2022 • 40 mins
Hallo Little Women fans! Today I am joined by Sinem and she is here to talk to us about Louisa May Alcott's love for two very famous German authors, Friedrich Schiller and Goethe. We are also discussing about the possibility that our beloved Friedrich Bhaer was named after Friedrich Schiller. Schiller makes surprisingly many entries in Little Women series. He is mentioned often in discussions between Jo and Friedrich and Meg and Jo...
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December 1, 2022 • 33 mins
Hello everybody. I am joined by Little Women expert, the author of the March Sisters Sweet Romance Book series, and writer Jen Brady. Jen is here to talk with us about her writing process, and what inspires her as a writer. We are chatting about her book "Falling for the tutor" which is a modern take on John's and Meg's love story. I have received questions about Louisa May Alcott's/Jo's anger issues, and the possibility of LMA bei...
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November 17, 2022 • 45 mins
I am joined by Little Women expert, the author of the March Sisters Sweet Romance Book series, and writer Jen Brady. Jen is here to discuss her book "Falling for the Tutor" which is a modern day retelling of John's and Meg's romance. In this episode, we shall be discussing about Meg's character. Her original inspiration is Louisa May Alcott's older sister, Anna Alcott and how Meg is the one sister, who feels most pressure from the ...
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November 3, 2022 • 50 mins
Welcome to season 4 new and old listeners! It is time for that John Brooke episode. John is the underrated love interest in the Little Women canon, but he is actually really great. He is a gentleman and a wonderful father and he adores Meg. I am joined by Little Women expert, the author of March Sisters Sweet Romance Book series, Jen Brady. In Jen's book "Falling for the tutor" we get John's point of view on things. What does he th...
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June 2, 2022 • 49 mins
All good things come to an end. Little Women podcast goes to a summer break and season 4 continues at the beginning of November. This q and a has questions I have received from you guys. Questions about John and Meg, Amy and Laurie and Jo and Friedrich I've received questions on different adaptations, people asking my opinions. If you have questions regarding this podcast, you can always message me on Instagram or use the ask box o...
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May 26, 2022 • 21 mins
What is transcendentalism without some outdoor discreets. Ever since I made the episode "love and sex in Little Women" people have been asking me about the sex scenes in the book. Here is a scene about Jo's sexual awakening and also a perfect fan fiction story written by OzQueen. Enjoy!
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