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Obscure Alcott Novel May Be Movie-Bound

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19960531
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LOS ANGELES Could another of Louisa May Alcott's 19th century novels be coming to a screen near you?

The makers of "Unsolved Mysteries" and "Due South" have bought the film and TV rights to the recently rediscovered 1849 manuscript "The Inheritance."

Terms of the purchase by Cosgrove-Meurer Productions and Alliance Communications were not announced. The productions companies did not say whether Alcott's first novel about a 19-year-old orphan will be made into a feature film or a television miniseries.

The handwritten manuscript sat since 1974 in Harvard's Houghton Library. Two scholars ...

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