Little Women — The Attic on Eighth

Five Period Dramas to Pull You Out of Winter

In her first piece for The Attic on Eighth, Kara Thompson shares five period dramas to get you out of your winter blues and into springtime gladness.

CultureKara ThompsonFebruary 27, 2020film, period dramas, spring films, Kara Thompson, contributor posts, contributor post, The Duchess, Little Women, Renoir, The Danish Girl, A Room with a View, Colette, springtime, springtime at the attic, popularComment

What to Watch After Little Women : Six Movies About Sisterhood

New in our series on Little Women, Attic contributor Milena Le Fouillé looks at the topic of sisters in cinema, and shares a must-watch list for fans of any genre.

CultureMilena Le FouilléFebruary 11, 2020sisterhood, sisters, movies about sisters, films about sisters, Little Women, Milena Le Fouillé, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, Howards End, Our Little Sister, Mustang, Denis Gamze Ergüven, The Invisible Life of Eurídice GusmãoI, film, comforting thingsComment

Little Nightingales: Female Filmmaking in 2020

Writer Zoë G. Burnett takes on the state of female filmmaking in 2020 while examining Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, its shortcomings, and the directorial power of Jennifer Kent.

Culture, LiteratureZoë G. BurnettJanuary 16, 2020Little Women, Greta Gerwig, Zoë G. Burnett, The Nightingale, The Babadook, Jennifer Kent, film, filmmaking Comment

Discussing Little Women

As a favorite Attic novel becomes yet another film, we’re getting into everything to do with Little Women and Louisa May Alcott. In this classic Attic on Eighth piece, we discuss the novel and its most recent adaptation by Greta Gerwig.

Literature, CultureThe Attic On EighthJanuary 12, 2020Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, lit, literature, period dramas, period films, movies, Greta Gerwig, Olivia Gündüz-Willemin, Milena Le Fouillé, M.A. McCuen, Eliza Campbell, Lauren Olmeda, Jessica Armstrong, comforting things Comment

Jo March for a New Generation of Little Women

Kicking off our series on Little Women, writer Camilla Danaher takes a look at Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel and considers how the director tenderly reframes the narrative to place Jo March and her writing at its center.

Culture, LiteratureCamilla DanaherJanuary 6, 2020Little Women, Jo March, Louisa May Alcott, Greta Gerwig, film, movies, period dramas, Camilla Danaher, contributor posts, contributor postComment

What We’re Watching, Vol. 7

Diving into November, members of The Attic gather to discuss what we're watching to enhance autumn coziness this month.

CultureThe Attic On EighthNovember 8, 2019what we're watching, what to watch this month, what to watch, november on netflix, television, Raquel Reyes, Olivia Gündüz-Willemin, Annie Jo Baker, M.A. McCuen, Little Women, House of Flowers, Please Like Me, Outlander, Looking For Alaska, Grantchester

What I Learned Growing Up With Female Characters

In her first piece for the Attic, Grusha Singh shares four valuable lessons she learned from childhood favorites.

LiteratureGrusha SinghJuly 20, 2019children's literature, lit, literature, female characters, Grusha Singh, contributor posts, contributor post, Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, Little Women, Amy March, Nancy Drew, Alice in Wonderland, comforting thingsComment

Rereading in Waves

LiteratureOlivia Gündüz-WilleminApril 29, 2017Anne of Green Gables, books, children's literature, feminism, L-M- Montgomery, literature, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Olivia Gündüz-WilleminComment