Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). The book Little Women was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. Little Women was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The novel Little Women follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on Louisa May Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
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.” Little Women has been read “as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well.” Louisa May 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.” Elbert argued that within Little Women the first vision of the “American Girl” and that her multiple aspects were found in the differing March sisters.
Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women “in record time for money.” Since Louisa May Alcott never married and wrote that she was “often lonely and in ill health,” some people questioned how she was able to write so beautifully and reflectively about "American home life.” (Summary by Wikipedia)