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`Little Women' // Warm Retelling Includes Alcott Herself

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19951201
Author:HEDY WEISS

`Little Women' Recommended

Through Dec. 10

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Louisa May Alcott's classic story of young four women, in a pleasant if unexceptional staging. Louisa May Alcott's best-known book, Little Women, has passed in and out of favor ever since it was first published in 1868.

Long seen as an exemplary celebration of traditional family values that could serve as a model of moral behavior and civic spirit for young women, it has, in recent decades, been recast as an impressive work of early feminism.

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