Louisa May Alcott Revisited

This is one of our favorite subjects ever! In this, we've combined both parts that originally ran in 2020 to revisit Wonder Woman, mega-episode style! She was forged in the fires of the suffragist movement, and beneath her abbreviated costume beats the heart of a lion. Fighting f ...  Show more

Fifty-six travelers met in the Windy City to visit some of the subjects we've covered over the years: Bertha Palmer, Frances Glessner Lee, Anne Frank, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jane Addams, and so many more. We took a good look at our favorite history hub - the 1893 World's Columbian Exp ...  Show more

"I could not write a girls' story," Louisa May Alcott protested after a publisher made a specific request that she do so, "knowing little about any but my own sisters and always preferring boys." But she agreed to try, and the result was Little Women, an immediate bestseller and ...  Show more

Our focus today is on a woman who was actually covered in the podcast several years ago. But she's a figure so mythic and with so many variations to her story that we wanted to give her another look and a little more time.

Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices