"My sisters and I remember that winter as the coldest of our childhood." This opening line, not of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women but of the 1994 film adaptation directed by Gillian Armstrong, loomed large in many winters of my own. Of all the literary heroines it is unoriginal to love, from Elizabeth Bennet to Dorothea Brooke, Jo March (particularly as embodied by Winona Ryder) is my one true thing. As a girl, I never got a haircut without secretly wishing the result might warrant a reenactme...
"My sisters and I remember that winter as the coldest of our childhood." This opening line, not of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women but of the 1994 film adaptation directed by Gillian Armstrong, loomed large in many winters of my own. Of all the literary heroines it is unoriginal to love, from Elizabeth Bennet to Dorothea Brooke, Jo March (particularly as embodied by Winona Ryder) is my one true thing. As a girl, I never got a haircut without secretly wishing the result might warrant a reenactme...
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