Little Women

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.