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Video Essay: Jo Marries Goethe - Reflections on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Jo and Goethe

Video Essay: Jo Marries Goethe - Reflections on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Jo and Goethe | Writers & Books | Scoop.it

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There was a real-life Friedrich Bhaer. In fact, you can find him from all of Louisa May Alcott´s writings. Read my full- research cultural and historical evolution of Friedrich Bhaer: http://www.fairychamber.com/blog/evolution-of-friedrich-bhaer

The Real-Life Friedrich Bhaer Video Essay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlHSe5U423A

Love and Sex in Little Women Video essay: https://youtu.be/mzuK9xH54KQ

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Melodie

I love this podcast! The host knows more, digs deeper, and makes better connections than any other LMA/Little Women researcher I’ve seen. I would consider myself a big LMA/Little Women fan, and I’d say I know more about the two than the average person (or average fan even), but I always learn something new listening to this podcast. I’m the admin for “The Little Women Book Club” on Facebook, and our members all really love this podcast. If you’re an LMA/Little Women fan you will love it, too!

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What a beautiful podcast! It’s so insightful and entertaining. It understands the characters perfectly (especially Laurie), I love it

Jen

As a long-time, die-hard Little Women fan, I LOVE this podcast! I stumbled upon it while doing research for a book series I was working on, and I am addicted! Niina is super knowledgeable in all things LW, from the book(s) to the movies and author Louisa May Alcott’s real life. I love that the discussions are based on the book and highlight the differences (sometimes controversial) between the original and newer adaptations. Highly recommended for anybody who loves getting lost in the world of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March.

Paola

I love your Little Women content. Thank you for sharing all your studies and research! I read the book earlier this year for the first time and I fell in love with Jo and Fritz’s relationship. I’m so glad I binged listened to your podcast to further my love for them. It also kickstarted an obsession with LMA too, she’s such an interesting woman and moved around in so many circles.

I can’t believe there are people that still don’t get Jo and Fritz. While reading I found it very obvious that Jo was falling for him even if Jo hadn’t realized it yet herself (I mean the girl didn’t shut up about his hands and how nice he is!). My heart melted at the moment when it says (rephrasing here:) ‘if Jo could’ve seen the Professor kissing the picture of her before going to bed, she would’ve known why he was visiting her hometown’ 😭 I see here Jo’s influence on Friedrich. Being with her and knowing her, encourages him to be more active, take initiative to things unknown, go find answers to his questions, try finding another job for bettering his nephew’s life.

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Classic Appreciation: On Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poem 'Frost at Midnight' - essay by Katherine Robinson

Classic Appreciation: On Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poem 'Frost at Midnight' - essay by Katherine Robinson | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The poet shows how reality and imagination can become one.
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From the Poetry Foundation

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. Active in the wake of the French Revolution as a dissenting pamphleteer and lay preacher, he inspired a brilliant generation of writers and attracted the patronage of progressive men of the rising middle class. As William Wordsworth’s collaborator and constant companion in the formative period of their careers as poets, Coleridge participated in the sea change in English verse associated with Lyrical Ballads (1798). His poems of this period, speculative, meditative, and strangely oracular, put off early readers but survived the doubts of Wordsworth and Robert Southey to become recognized classics of the romantic idiom.
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Samuel Johnson's Essays: A great website dedicated to them, following the exact chronology of their original publication

Samuel Johnson's Essays: A great website dedicated to them, following the exact chronology of their original publication | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
This site posts Samuel Johnson’s essays in the same way his original readers found him – in a semi-frequent way, posted 260 years after Johnson wrote them.
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Reflections: On Jane Austen's novels - by Patricia Meyer Spacks, Prof. of English and a leading authority on 18th-century English literature

Reflections: On Jane Austen's novels - by Patricia Meyer Spacks, Prof. of English and a leading authority on 18th-century English literature | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The professor of English tells us about the joy of rereading Austen and the hidden layers of complexity that emerge from the writing when one does so. She chooses the best Jane Austen books. 
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Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F Shannon Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Virginia. She is a leading critic of 18th century English literature and has served as president of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Modern Language Association. Her annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published in 2010 and On Rereading, a record of a year-long project of re-visiting different novels, was published in 2011.
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Essay: Feminist Historian Sheila Rowbotham on the Pioneering Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Radical Polemic, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women'

Essay: Feminist Historian Sheila Rowbotham on the Pioneering Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Radical Polemic, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
An essay-appreciation of  the 18th-century pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and an extract from Rowbotham's introduction to Wollstonecraft's groundbreaking work A Vindication of the Rights of Women,
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Biographies of Samuel Johnson by Peter Martin and Jeffrey Meyers

Biographies of Samuel Johnson by Peter Martin and Jeffrey Meyers | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Two new biographies celebrate Samuel Johnson’s tercentenary.
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FYI, I'd recommend not to bother with Martin's - it's shockingly tedious and poorly written. Meyers' biog is engaging and thoughtful, as are all his biogs of literary subjects.

The greatest biographies and studies of this great man remain those by:

James Boswell (to this day, probably the most famous, renowned biography of any person, living or dead). I confess I found it really only became alive from 1763 onwards, when Boswell first met him and then began scrupulously to take detailed notes of - he claimed - verbatim conversations with Johnson - so many of the best anecdotes about Johnson and situations are those where Boswell was in attendance.

W. Jackson Bate

James Clifford

John Wain

Christopher Hibbert

John Hawkins 
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The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: The most comprehensive collection of Samuel Johnson quotes on the web

The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: The most comprehensive collection of Samuel Johnson quotes on the web | Writers & Books | Scoop.it

Over 1,800 quotes from the great English lexicographer and essayist Samuel Johnson, indexed by topic.

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