It was ubiquitous, as was Anne of Green of Gables. I noticed in my research on Little Women, though, that girls aren’t reading the novel as much today as they used it. Their books are old friends we can always turn to. They live on for us in their books and give us the courage and strength we need at times. I think that there is something powerful (perhaps spiritual) about the connection we and so many readers have to these authors. I think of both of us relate to these books on a personal level but also realize how important they have been in so many women’s lives and therefore how transformational they have been on a larger scale. It is exciting to be able to talk with you about our favorite books - Anne of Green Gables and Little Women. I’m thrilled to sit down together to discuss these two books in light of our own recent work ( Marilla of Green Gables and Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters ).ĪBR: Nice to meet you too, Sarah - with an H. SM: Welcome Anne - with an E, I must point out. I sat down with Anne to discuss the iconic novels that inspired us, Anne of Green Gables and Little Women, and why they can still inspire women today, more than 100 years after they were written.
And that literary nostalgia also motivated Anne Boyd Rioux, critically-acclaimed author and editor of six books about 19th century American women writers, to write her latest work Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters. That’s why my latest book, Marilla of Green Gables, revisits one of those classic books that means so much to me, imagining Prince Edward Island before L.M. Every day that I cross out another calendar box, I feel more nostalgic for the books of my childhood, even the ones that might seem too naive and whimsical for our shrewd modernity.
The older I get, the more I find myself pulled to the past.
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