Neverending Stories: Professional Fan Fiction: A-Alcott

Neverending Stories: Professional Fan Fiction: Alcott

Orig. author Book or character PFF author PFF title Publisher Date Cat 1 Cat 2 Cat 3 Notes

Alcott, Louisa May Little Women Brooks, Geraldine March NY: Viking, 2005 2005 Refocalization The horrors of war change Mr. March. First person narration by March supplemented by letters home and memories of courtship and his time in the south as a Yankee peddler of 18 or 19. Vivid descriptions of awfulness of hospitals, racists, soldiers, massacres, and his time on a plantation of "contraband" blacks. Appearances by RPs Thoreau, Emerson, and John Brown. Brooks based character on Branson Alcott, but also departs from him. Won 2006 Pulitzer.

Alcott, Louisa May Little Women Weber, Katherine The Little Women NY: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2003 2003 Dislocation AU AU set in contemporary New Haven. Three sisters--Meg, Joanna, and Amy Green--move out of NYC home because mother had an affair and father did nothing about it. Meta: Sometimes people call Joanna Jo and allude to the March sisters, and Jo is a writer; the narrative is supposed to be a book by Joanna, with comments by Meg and Amy and replies from Jo. Why did Weber choose Marches instead of Bennetts or King Lear or something else?

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Orig. author	Book or character	PFF author	PFF title	Publisher	Date	Cat 1	Cat 2	Cat 3	Notes
Alcott, Louisa May	Little Women	Brooks, Geraldine	March	NY: Viking, 2005	2005	Refocalization			The horrors of war change Mr. March. First person narration by March supplemented by letters home and memories of courtship and his time in the south as a Yankee peddler of 18 or 19. Vivid descriptions of awfulness of hospitals, racists, soldiers, massacres, and his time on a plantation of "contraband" blacks. Appearances by RPs Thoreau, Emerson, and John Brown. Brooks based character on Branson Alcott, but also departs from him. Won 2006 Pulitzer.
Alcott, Louisa May	Little Women	Weber, Katherine	The Little Women	NY: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2003	2003	Dislocation		AU	AU set in contemporary New Haven. Three sisters--Meg, Joanna, and Amy Green--move out of NYC home because mother had an affair and father did nothing about it. Meta: Sometimes people call Joanna Jo and allude to the March sisters, and Jo is a writer; the narrative is supposed to be a book by Joanna, with comments by Meg and Amy and replies from Jo. Why did Weber choose Marches instead of Bennetts or King Lear or something else?