357 Little Women Remixed (with Bethany C. Morrow) | Thomas Jefferson's Gospel (with Scott Carter)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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It's a literary feast! National bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow joins Jacke for a discussion of her novel So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix, in which four young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War. PLUS playwright Scott Carter, author of Discord: The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy, returns to the podcast to tell Jacke about Jefferson's efforts to write a new version of the New Testament. Enjoy! Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, it's Jack. Do you ever find yourself wondering about the little mysteries in life?
0:06.0	Like how refrigeration happened? Or just how many times did the CIA try to assassinate
0:12.0	Fidel Castro anyway? If you find yourself going down rabbit holes like these, then I recommend
0:18.1	a trip to the podcast, History of Everything. Hosted by History lover Steven Bell and
0:24.4	scientist Gabby Bell, the show dives into all the cool but weird little details that make
0:30.3	our world what it is today. You can count on them to cover literally the history of everything,
0:36.2	from potatoes to the crusades. So don't miss out. Listen to History of Everything wherever
0:42.4	you get your podcasts and tell them I sent you. Hello. In our last episode, we told you about
0:49.8	Louisa May Alcott and the work that made her famous the book for girls. She didn't think she could
0:56.0	write little women. Today we might say that what she left out of that book is as interesting as
1:02.5	what she put in. Alcott and her family were abolitionists, they were station masters on the
1:08.1	underground railroad, and Louisa May herself traveled to Washington DC during the Civil War to
1:14.1	serve as a nurse for Union soldiers. And then a few years later, back home in Massachusetts,
1:21.5	she set her novel during the Civil War period with no mention of the word abolition or emancipation
1:28.0	or slavery or slaves. Father is off where the fighting is. The girls say vaguely, whether this
1:37.1	was an artistic choice, an unconscious bias or blindness or an instance of a writer giving
1:43.4	in to actual or anticipated editorial or market pressure is not clear, at least not to me.
1:51.3	But what is clear is this. For all its strengths, little women gives us only a partial picture
1:57.0	of America, a thin slice of girlhood at that time. That's where remixing comes in to give us
2:04.1	new stories to round out our understanding of history and to let us revisit and rethink what
2:10.4	we and the rest of the world have been reading. We're joined by Bethany C. Morrow today,
2:15.6	who has written a novel called So Many Beginnings, A Little Women Remix. Her book has four sisters,
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