![]() ![]() It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth", but also "as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well". The novel addressed three major themes: "domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity."Little Women "has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. Although Little Women was a novel for girls, it differed notably from the current writings for children, especially girls. ![]() Alcott also wrote two sequels to her popular work, both of which also featured the March sisters: Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). The two volumes were issued in 1880 in a single work entitled Little Women. Alcott quickly completed a second volume, entitled Good Wives. ![]() ![]() 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.Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers demanded to know more about the characters. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 18. ![]()
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