Real Life Friedrich Bhaer Transcript

Podcast and Transcript

As some of you may know I am (slowly) turning my podcast into a book and currently, I am rechecking all my transcripts and sharing them.

Today I wish to share a transcript of the episode “Real Life Friedrich Bhaer”

There was a real-life Friedrich Bhaer. In fact, Louisa May Alcott wanted to marry him and even start a school with him. This man appears in literal disguises in all of her novels. He is Friedrich in Little Women, Mac in Rose in Bloom, David in Work, and many more. Henry and Louisa shared a deep friendship, was it more than friendship? In Little Women Jo's and Friedrich's age gap is 16 years. It is the same age difference as between Henry and Louisa.

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