New Adaptation of Little Women Coming This Christmas!

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is coming to the BBC this Christmas.

The story follows the lives of four sisters- Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March- and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. The novel was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, but was eventually made into a single book for sale. The story was an instant hit and sold out its first 2000 copies.

“Little Women has a timeless resonance which reflects Alcott’s grasp of her historical framework in the 1860s. The novel’s ideas do not intrude themselves upon the reader because the author is wholly in control of the implications of her imaginative structure. Sexual equality is the salvation of marriage and the family; democratic relationships make happy endings. This is the unifying imaginative frame of Little Women.” ~Sarah Elbert, 1987~

This adaptation is brought to us by Call The Midwife creator Heidi Thomas. It is directed by My Mad Fat Diary’s Vanessa Caswill and produced by Playground, who are well known for their TV shows Wolf Hall and The Missing.

Our very own Michael Gambon (of Dumbledore fame) will play Mr Laurence, with Angela Lansbury (Murder She Wrote) playing Aunt March.

Emily Watson is cast as Marmee, alongside Maya Hawke who will play Jo, Willa Fitzgerald as Meg, Annes Elwy as Beth, and Kathryn Newton (Big Little Lies) as youngest sister Amy.

Little Women will be shown BBC One on Boxing Day at 8pm, airing on three consecutive nights. 

Little Women US

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