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So I’d been wrestling with the idea for a while, but when I mentioned it in passing to Margie, she just completely flipped out. Jo March is the writer every little girl grows up wanting to be, and I was no different. Melissa de la Cruz: I had always loved Little Women-my favorite was Jo’s Boys-and doing some kind of re-telling was an idea I’d had for a long time. What made you want to collaborate now, and why on Jo & Laurie? You two are longtime friends and bestselling authors in your own right. But first, we want to share the details of how de la Cruz and Stohl developed their story. We’re excited to reveal an exclusive excerpt from the novel, which features a conversation between Jo and Laurie at a secret swimming hole. But when Laurie returns to Concord with a sophisticated new girlfriend, will Jo finally communicate her true heart’s desire or lose the love of her life forever? But despite her growing feelings, her desire to remain independent leads her to turn down his heartfelt marriage proposal and sends the boy off to college heartbroken. While pressured into coming up with a story, she goes to New York with her dear friend Laurie. Intrigued? Here’s the novel’s description from the publisher:Īfter the publication of Little Women, Jo March is shocked to discover her book of scribbles has become a bestseller, and her publisher demands a sequel. When Jo & Laurie hits shelves next summer, readers will finally see the results of that romance in print. But readers have fantasized about a marriage between Jo and Laurie ever since Alcott’s novel was published in 1868. In Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, (spoiler alert) Jo marries Professor Bhaer and Laurie marries Jo’s younger sister Amy. Bestselling authors Melissa de la Cruz and Margaret Stohl have set out to “ the wrongs of fictional history” in their new Young Adult novel, Jo & Laurie, which imagines a romance between the beloved characters. But without the building blocks in Alcott’s novel the 2019 Little Women couldn’t exist.If you wanted Jo and Laurie to end up together in Little Women, you’re not alone. It’s been repurposed to fit an even more feminist narrative here.

Little women laurie movie#

Whether or not you'll love the changes is a different sort of story.Ī lot has been made of the one line Laura Dern utters in the trailer and movie for Little Women, “I’m angry nearly every day of my life,” which is a line lifted straight from the pages of Louisa May Alcott’s( in many ways radical) book. However, what the director commits to the big screen is done rather faithfully, just with her own flair and some touches for a modern-day audience. This includes bits like Amy trying to throw a party for her wealthier mates, the birth of Meg’s babies (who are simply introduced as children), or even Jo and Laura spending more time together in a way that makes it clear he pines for her.

In fact, a lot of the book’s charming but less plot-driven anecdotal chapters are either condensed or skipped entirely for the movie adaptation. These sorts of minor changes happen over and over again. It’s a nearly 500-page behemoth with both stories combined, and while we get, for example, Meg testing her relationship by buying fabric she can’t afford, we miss another key anecdotal relationship story about the time she tried and failed to make jelly. It’s worth noting after all of this that Greta Gerwig’s movie adaptation of Little Women skips large swaths of Louisa May Alcott’s book. This change may seem small but it’s a big difference for a movie that makes a lot of touches to be more female-focused even than past iterations of the project were. In the book, she opens a school for boys-“boys, I want to open a school for little lads”-although girls ultimately attend the school as well, as we find out in Little Men. Jo And The Professor Open A School For GirlsĪt the end of Little Women 2019, the movie makes it seem like a rowdy school has been opened for children of both genders, although when Jo inherits Plumfield, she makes it clear she wants to open a school so girls can get a better education.