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The little fellow next Father Bhaer is his boy Rob, and then there's big Franz his nephew; he teaches some, and kind of sees to us.

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys 1871

"Yes, and isn't he a much more useful and agreeable animal than the wild colt who spent his days racing about the field, jumping fences, and running away now and then?" asked Mrs. Bhaer from the steps where she always appeared when Dan performed with Charlie.

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys 1871

Nat, who had never heard anything like this before, really did not know whether Mother Bhaer was a trifle crazy, or the most delightful woman he had ever met.

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys 1871

Daddy Bhaer is away, and Mrs. Bhaer's busy with Ted; he's got croup or something, and she can't leave him.

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys 1871

(They're dating in real life.) [Ed: Actually, they got hitched New Year's Eve.] 8: 30 pm: Gabriel Byrne wins, and Zac Efron's lifelong dream to hang out with Friedrich Bhaer from "Little Women" is thwarted.

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On the other hand is Louisa May Alcott's Jo falling for the middle-aged (and German) Professor Bhaer, which Alcott did because she was going to be damned if she went with the obvious romantic pairing, and was miffed that everybody insisted she marry Jo off at all.

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Alcott refused to yield, but New York City and Professor Bhaer were her compromise.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

In one scene, when a boy needs to be punished, Professor Bhaer forces the boy to hit him with a ruler, just as Bronson Alcott sometimes asked his students to hit him, knowing that this would be much more frightening than the other way around.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

What happens in New York neatly furthers the narrative and brings in the character of the forty-year-old professor Frederic Bhaer.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

The Alcott Houses look very much like the sets of the four movies made of Little Women in which, as in the novel, the intrepid and fictional Jo March meets and, without knowing it, falls in love with the bearlike Professor Bhaer.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010