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Alcott prefaces Little Women with an excerpt from John Bunyan’s seventeenth-century work The Pilgrim’s Progress, an allegorical novel about leading a Christian life. Alcott’s story begins with the four March girls—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—sitting in their living room, lamenting their poverty.
Louisa May Alcott, American author known for her children’s books, especially the classic Little Women. Among her other notable works are Little Men, Hospital Sketches, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, and Jo’s Boys. Learn more about Alcott’s life and literary career in this article.
The story opens in Concord, Massachusetts, just a few days before Christmas in the year 1860. The four March girls – motherly Meg (age 16), boyish Jo (age 15), frail yet pious Beth (age 13), and elegant Amy (age 12) – live alone with their mother, Mrs. March.
Little Women concerns the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. It was based on Alcott's own experiences as a child in Germantown, Pennsylvania with her three sisters, Anna, May, and Elizabeth. Source: Alcott L. M. (1868). Little Women.Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers. Part 1, Chapter 1: Playing Pilgrims
May 1, 1996 · Little Women Note: There is an improved illustrated edition of this title which may be viewed at eBook #37106. Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Autobiographical fiction Subject: Young women -- Fiction Subject: Sisters -- Fiction Subject: Domestic fiction Subject
Little Women was one of the classics that had been on my wishlist the longest. I think I first came across it while watching that episode of Friends. I didn't know much about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, but it seemed like the perfect children's classic for me. Yet Little Women wasn't as engaging as I had hoped.
About Little Women. Louisa May Alcott shares the innocence of girlhood in this classic coming of age story about four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy are responsible for keeping a home while their father is off to war.
