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PICTURING THE WORLD OF `LITTLE WOMEN' CONCORD MUSEUM EXHIBITS EDITION FROM 1880 WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20020627
Author:Leslie Anderson, Globe Correspondent
Long before movie directors worried whether the on-screen versions of Harry Potter and Frodo would match the heroes their fans had imagined, a 19th-century illustrator struggled to draw Jo March in "Little Women."
"Good," Louisa May Alcott, the woman who created Jo, wrote on the back of one attempt, "but Jo is always made to look too old for her years."
"Eyes too staring," she wrote of an illustration of the heroine's middle-aged suitor. "Bhaer was not frightened of Jo."
No girl lucky enough to receive the final product that Christmas in 1880 - a gold-trimmed, green leather volume filled with ...
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