Description
"The American female myth." Madelon Bedell From the Trade Paperback edition. --Online Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) won international renown with the publishing of Little Women and its sequel, Good Wives. Her works include An Old Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins and Jack and Jill. Alcott grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, where her family befriended such literary greats as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Features & Highlights
- LITTLE WOMEN is a novel by American author LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832–1888). The novel follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. The novel has three major themes: domesticity, work, and true love. All of them are interdependent and each is necessary to the achievement of a heroine’s individual identity. Little Women itself has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both.




