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`Little Women' Comes to Life At Alcott Home

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19950205
Author:Lori Miller

What draws us to a quiet brown Orchard House in Concord, Mass.? The chance to visit the place where we all grew up - the home of Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, a book many people pick up as children and never really put down.

Little Women was the first and best of the Alcott books, and remains true because Alcott drew her tale of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - directly from life.

Now is a good time to visit the house where Louisa wrote the chapters of our early lives. Little Women came out again as a movie on Christmas Day - this time starring Winona Ryder - and was No. ...

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