Little Women Little Women Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books over several months at the request of her publisher. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Scholars classify "Little Women" as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel. "Little Women" was an immediate commercial and critical success with readers demanding to know more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed
Little Women (1949 film) Movies presented "Little Women" on October 7, 2015 in commemoration of what would have been June Allyson's 98th birthday. Shown before "Little Women" was 1946's "The Secret Heart", 1945's "The Sailor Takes a Wife", 1946's "Two Sisters from Boston", 1947's "Good News", and 1948's "The Bride Goes Wild". The remaining films were 1950's "The Reformer and the Redhead" and 1951's "Too Young to Kiss". Little Women (1949 film) Little Women is a 1949 American feature film with script and music taken directly from the earlier 1933 Hepburn version. Based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name, it was