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American Masters, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind “Little Women”
Louisa May Alcott's reputation as a morally upstanding spinster, reflecting the conventional propriety of late 19th Century Concord, is firmly established. However, raised among reformers — the intellectual protégé of Emerson, Hawthorne and Thoreau — Alcott was a free thinker with democratic ideals and progressive values about women.
Originally broadcast in 2009, this is the first film biography about the celebrated author, and it reveals a remarkable woman, ahead of her time, who was much more than a writer of children’s books.
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