Little Women

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott. It is written and set in the Alcott family home Orchard House in Concord Massachusetts. The novel follows the lives of four sisters – Meg Jo Beth and Amy March. Little Women was a fiction novel for girls that veered from the normal writings for children especially girls at the time. Little Women 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. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth.” Alcott “combines many conventions of the sentimental novel with crucial ingredients of Romantic children's fiction creating a new form of which Little Women is a unique model.”