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"Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for"

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women.

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

„We can’t give up our girls for a dozen fortunes. Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.“

~Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Little Women (2019) v. Book: the Timelines

I knew before seeing Little Women (2019) that it was going to have a start in the middle approach, something like Jane Eyre (2011) did. Writer/Director Greta Gerwig said (in “A New Generation of Little Women”, the first special feature on the dvd) that she wanted to feature the characters as adults, that in the second part of the book, the chapters are "the adult answer to what happened in childhood", and the film flashes back and forth to line up the storylines, although in this interview, at 1:50 she describes it as two timelines that are both moving forward.

When is Little Women set?

Published 1868 (Book/Part 1, Chapters 1-23) & 1869 (Book/Part 2, Chapters 24-47)

Civil War took place April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865

Here's a proposed book timeline for the whole series concerning the Marches.

For my book to movie comparison I watched the dvd with subtitles, and text searched lines in the Ebook on Project Gutenberg. You can also search the text in Apple Books and Kindle (and I assume whatever other ebook formats exist) which also have free editions.

I did not make notes of where changes to character or plot were made, just tracking the movie timelines in comparison to book timeline

Timeline 1 (because that's where the film starts) is the later years (Book Part 2)

Timeline 2 is the earlier years (mostly Book Part 1, but towards the ends it catches up with the beginning of Timeline 1, including content from Book Part 2)

Movie: the dvd "scenes" seem to cut in the middle of story scenes, so I've tried to indicate where there's overlap

Scene/Chapter 1 (00:00:00)

Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 34, 33 Jo

Scene/Chapter 2 (00:06:03)

Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 31 (references), 37 (quotes), 26 (references) Amy

00:08:40 -Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 28 Meg

00:09:40 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 (no particular reference except her sisters living away - home, Beth playing piano, .

00:10:11 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 33-34 (but no particular reference) Jo and Bhaer at theater and a dance.

Scene/Chapter 3 (00:12:05)

Timeline 2: "7 years earlier, Concord, Massachusetts" - Book Part 1 Chapters 4 (references), 3 (quotes), 1

00:17:53 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 33 (quotes), Jo (New York)

00:19:18 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 37 (ball), 39 (quoted) Amy (Paris)

00:21:26 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 34 (references) Jo (New York)

Scene/Chapter 4 (00:24:24)

Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 34 (references) Jo on her way home

Scene/Chapter 4, Scene/Chapter 5 (00:30:18)

00:25:10 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapters 2 (quotes), 1 (quotes), 13 (quotes), 6 (references), Part 2 - Ch 29 (references painting boots blue), Part 1 - Ch 7 (references), 5

Scene/Chapter 5

00:33:24 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 34 (references) Jo on her way home

Scene/Chapter 5, Scene/Chapter 6 (00:38:40)

00:34:04 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 Chapters 4 (quotes), 7 (quotes), 1 (references), 5 (quotes)

Scene/Chapter 6

Scene/Chapter: 6 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 34,  Jo on her way home, post office/mail box

00:40:59 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 10 (quotes)

00:43:12 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 36

Scene/Chapter 6, Scene/Chapter 7 (00:47:07)

00:44:41 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 8

00:53:21 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 36

Scene/Chapter 7, Scene/Chapter 8 (00:57:36)

00:54:23 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapters 9 (quotes) Meg, 6 Beth (quotes)

01:01:24 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 28 Meg

Scene/Chapter 8, Scene/Chapter 9 (01:07:18)

01:03:15 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 39, Book Part 1 - Chapter 15 (references: making fortune, marrying for money) Amy

01:07:28 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapters 12 (references), 14 (quotes)

01:09:07 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 36, Jo and Beth

Scene/Chapter 9

01:10:05 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapters 4 (quotes), 15 (quotes)

01:13:36 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 39 (quotes), 41 (references)

Scene/Chapter 10 (01:16:25)

01:16:25 - Timeline 2: Book Part 2 - Chapter 26 (cast of Amy's foot), Book Part 1 - Chapters 16, 6 (quoted, Beth's slippers for Mr. Laurence, piano), 17 (quotes, scarlet fever)

Scene/Chapter 11 (01:20:08)

01:20:08 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 36 (quotes), Book Part 1 - Chapter 10 (quotes, Jo writing it), Book Part 2 - Chapters 42 (references) *costume trivia, I think Beth is wearing the same plaid top that Jo wore in the past and is wearing in the following flashback

01:24:34 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 18, Beth and Jo

01:22:03 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapters 19, 23 (referencing marrying well) Amy

01:23:39 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 41, Amy

01:24:29 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 40, 28

Scene/Chapter 12 (01:25:46)

01:25:46 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 18

01:26:02 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 40

01:26:09 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 20

01:26:40 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 40

01:28:00 - Timeline 2: Book Part 1 - Chapter 22

Scene/Chapter 13 (01:29:37)

01:29:37 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 40

01:31:22 - Timeline 2: Book Part 2 - Chapters 25 (Meg's wedding), 23 (quotes), 29 (references), 30 (quotes)- *Amy still with her young hair and short dress, "free spinster and paddle my own canoe.” quote from an LMA journal.

01:36:04 - Timeline 2: Book Part 2 - Chapter 35 (quotes)

Scene/Chapter 14 (01:39:53)

01:39:54 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 42 (quotes), "all a woman is fit for" quote is from other LMA book, Rose in Bloom Jo

01:43:03 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 41, Amy

01:44:46 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2, Jo

01:45:12 - Timeline 2: Book Part 2 - Chapter 33, Jo (arrival in NY)

01:45:42 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 43

Scene/Chapter 15 (01:49:37)

01:49:38 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 43

01:50:47 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 42, 27 (writing)

01:54:23 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 47

01:56:04 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 34 (writing)

01:56:40 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 43

01:57:06 - Timeline 2: Book Part 2 - Chapter 33

01:57:39 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapters 43, 46, 44, mixed in with material drawn from Alcott's experience writing and publishing

Scene/Chapter 16 (02:06:22)

02:06:22 - Timeline 1: Book Part 2 - Chapter 47, mixed in with material drawn from Alcott's experience writing and publishing

For reference, book chapter list:

PART 1 1  PLAYING PILGRIMS 2  A MERRY CHRISTMAS 3  THE LAURENCE BOY 4  BURDENS 5  BEING NEIGHBORLY 6  BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL 7  AMY'S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION 8  JO MEETS APOLLYON 9  MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR 10  THE P.C. AND P.O. 11  EXPERIMENTS 12  CAMP LAURENCE 13  CASTLES IN THE AIR 14  SECRETS 15  A TELEGRAM 16  LETTERS 17  LITTLE FAITHFUL 18  DARK DAYS 19  AMY'S WILL 20  CONFIDENTIAL 21  LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE 22  PLEASANT MEADOWS 23  AUNT MARCH SETTLES THE QUESTION PART 2 24  GOSSIP 25  THE FIRST WEDDING 26  ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS 27  LITERARY LESSONS 28  DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES 29  CALLS 30  CONSEQUENCES 31  OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT 32  TENDER TROUBLES 33  JO'S JOURNAL 34  FRIEND 35  HEARTACHE 36  BETH'S SECRET 37 NEW IMPRESSIONS 38  ON THE SHELF 39  LAZY LAURENCE 40  THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW 41  LEARNING TO FORGET 42  ALL ALONE 43  SURPRISES 44  MY LORD AND LADY 45  DAISY AND DEMI 46  UNDER THE UMBRELLA 47  HARVEST TIME

this... this hit me

this whole movie hit me, and it's not even the first time I've watched it

A little reminder (ﾟ▽＾*)☆

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