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Onder moeders vleugels
Louisa May Alcotts klassieker 'Onder moeders vleugels', ook bekend onder de oorspronkelijke titel 'Little Women', is opnieuw verfilmd met o.a. Emma Watson en Meryl Streep.
De zusjes wie kent ze niet? De lieftallige Meg, kwetsbare Beth, lichtelijk verwende Amy en natuurlijk de getalenteerde tomboy Jo die anderhalve eeuw na haar literaire geboorte nog steeds talloze schrijfsters en andere vrouwen inspireert, zoals J.K. Rowling en Barbara Kingsolver. Via de dromen, spelletjes, plagerijen, brieven, tegenslagen en romances van de vier zussen worden vrouwen over de hele wereld en van alle leeftijden deel van de bijzondere familie March. Een Amerikaanse, feministische klassieker over de spanningen tussen maatschappij en individualiteit.
'Als jong meisje was Jo March mijn heldin. Als volwassene is dat Louisa May Alcott.' - Greta Gerwig, regisseur 'Little Women'
De zusjes wie kent ze niet? De lieftallige Meg, kwetsbare Beth, lichtelijk verwende Amy en natuurlijk de getalenteerde tomboy Jo die anderhalve eeuw na haar literaire geboorte nog steeds talloze schrijfsters en andere vrouwen inspireert, zoals J.K. Rowling en Barbara Kingsolver. Via de dromen, spelletjes, plagerijen, brieven, tegenslagen en romances van de vier zussen worden vrouwen over de hele wereld en van alle leeftijden deel van de bijzondere familie March. Een Amerikaanse, feministische klassieker over de spanningen tussen maatschappij en individualiteit.
'Als jong meisje was Jo March mijn heldin. Als volwassene is dat Louisa May Alcott.' - Greta Gerwig, regisseur 'Little Women'
315 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 25, 2019
About the author
Louisa May Alcott
4,426 books11.2k followersLouisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.
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March 2, 2026
Leuk verhaal, al vond ik de film mooier.
Vond het soms wat lastig met de ouderwetse schrijfstijl, struikelde met regelmaat in de zinnen, en ook ergerde ik me een beetje aan het gebruik van het woord "dadelijk" op veel onnodige plekken.
Vond het soms wat lastig met de ouderwetse schrijfstijl, struikelde met regelmaat in de zinnen, en ook ergerde ik me een beetje aan het gebruik van het woord "dadelijk" op veel onnodige plekken.
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