Who wrote the 19th Century novel ‘Little Women’?
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 the female protagonist to evolve in the story. In late 20th century, some scholars have criticized the novel. Sarah Elbert, for instance, wrote that "Little Women" was the beginning of "a decline in the radical power of women's fiction", partly because women's fiction was being idealized with a "hearth and home" children's story. Women's literature historians and juvenile fiction historians have agreed that "Little Women" was the beginning of this "downward spiral". But Elbert says that "Little Women" did not "belittle women's fiction" and that Alcott stayed true to her "Romantic birthright". "Little Women"'s popular audience was responsive to ideas