Little Women/Trivia


 * Adaptation Overdosed: Little Women has been made into several stage plays, movies (see The Film of the Book in the main section), TV miniseries, anime, an opera and a Broadway musical.
 * Creator Breakdown: Jo's Boys was written in segments over several years towards the end of Alcott's life that were fraught with illness and the deaths of loved ones. On the last page, she breaks the fourth wall and writes that she is strongly tempted to destroy Plumfield and all its inhabitants in an earthquake, but she won't.
 * Executive Meddling: Alcott's original intent was to have Jo live unmarried, but her publishers objected. Nan does instead.
 * Fandom Nod: Chapter 3 of Jo's Boys, "Jo's Last Scrape," as well as Laurie's proposal in Little Women when he tells Jo "Everyone expects it!"
 * Life Imitates Art: Elizabeth Alcott died before Anna (Meg's real life counterpart) married. Years after the second part of Little Women was published, May (Amy's real life counterpart) married the man who had comforted her when Abba Alcott died, just as Amy married Laurie who had comforted her after Beth March died.
 * Magnum Opus Dissonance: Alcott was astonished at the work's bestseller status.
 * Writer Revolt: Alcott grew weary of readers' rampant Shipping of her characters, as this discussion shows.