Something Intriguing about Louisa May Alcott: Author of Little Women

There are a lot of things about Louisa May Alcott that we never get to know on our Literature class. Louisa May Alcott, writer of a timeless classic "Little Women" was a nurse, seamstress, and a writer of children's books and tawdry pulp fiction. These baffling information on Alcott was released in "American Masters Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women." Alcott is being played by Elizabeth Marvel, who will bring to life the intriguing story of a woman writer of 30 pulp-fiction thrillers under the pen name A.M. Barnard.

More information about Louisa May Alcott and the film featuring the writer below, taken from www.tulsaworld.com

Alcott was reared in the "center of 19th-century New England's transcendentalist and radical abolitionist movements. She learned about literature from Emerson, botany from Thoreau, was raised on a commune as a vegetarian, used opium, tried hashish, and experienced the Civil War up close as an army nurse."

Historical dialogue used in the film was taken from writings or firsthand reports of conversations and the footage was shot in original locations, including Orchard House, the Alcott family home in Concord; Emerson's house in Concord; and Fruitlands in Harvard. Dramatic scenes, also starring Oscar nominee Jane Alexander as Alcott's first biographer, are weaved among interviews with Alcott scholars. 8 p.m. Monday PBS, channel 11