![]() There’s no essay devoted to her in “ March Sisters,” the wonderful recent essay collection about the novel. Marmee rarely figures in the most pleasurable contemporary discussions or interpretations of “Little Women.” She’s not usually featured in the personality quizzes. The tagline for the new film is “Own your story.” Can a Marmee do that? It’s sentimental, sexless, without drive. Yet, Marmee? The word occasions a shudder. These are well-loved, and excellently loving, women. In the novel, the elder Margaret March does generally go by Marmee, just as Abigail May Alcott, Louisa’s mother, did. Everyone does!” She’s introducing herself to Laurie (Timothée Chalamet), but also to us, the audience for Greta Gerwig’s new adaptation of “ Little Women.” The setting is cozy, the women dressed in to-die-for knits and linens (the socks alone!), and the introduction is not inaccurate. Laura Dern trips through the warm domestic chaos and trills over her shoulder, “Just call me Mother, or Marmee. ![]() The house is busy, happy, trimmed for the holidays. ![]()
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