Little Women

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Buckle up for a real ride. We're taking you on an Alcott odyssey. First, we talk about the latest film adaptation of Little Women and ponder questions like: why didn't Greta Gerwig win ....everything? Is Thoreau a precursor to tiny house builders everywhere? We play a spirited game of scam or real Bronson Alcott business endeavor, and perhaps most importantly, report on recent communications by Comrade Spears

Original air date: March 31, 2020

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0:00.0	I have a challenge for you and I didn't mean to do this to you during Women's History Month,
0:05.3	but I think you're capable.
0:06.7	I'm afraid. You should be. I want to know if you could try to go, you know, in this time already of like restraint and denial, if you could go a month without Salzer.
0:18.1	Allison. Can you? I, oh God, this is really hard. I don't really know what to say.
0:27.0	I just, I want you to try for me. We're standing on this like beautiful hilltop, like I'm making one simple proposal to you
0:35.8	Oh God I can't I've tried it and I fail
0:40.4	What does everyone expect? I can. Welcome everyone to American Girls, the podcast where we're reliving the American
0:56.3	Girl series book by book and welcome to our patron episode where we're
1:01.0	reviewing and reading and talking about things that we think
1:04.3	fit into the world of this podcast. I'm Mary and I'm Allison and today we've
1:09.8	gathered to discuss a very important piece. In some ways people might say it's a
1:15.7	description or an appropriate description of us. Yeah, I don't know if I'm
1:21.6	over prepared, under prepared prepared I have pages of notes I feel like I've been
1:26.1	training for this since 1994 what are we talking about we are talking about little women
1:31.9	yeah and the Alkots. There's so much to get to. You have
1:36.4	been prepping for this like the AP exam which will likely not take place this year.
1:41.7	Oh, here's the thing.
1:43.5	This episode will be approximately one hour.
1:46.4	What's weird about this hour
1:48.2	is that compared to the rest of the time
1:50.4	I've spent talking about little women, this is just recorded. That's the only difference.
1:55.2	Yeah. I mean, I think it's safe to say that we've both been lifelong fans of little women in the book and the film adaptations I mean obviously we'll get into the
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