![]() ![]() ![]() Like her narrator, Alcott had grown up wild and boyish, directing plays and walking through the countryside with Henry David Thoreau. Alcott did not believe she could do it, but quickly wrote the first portion of Little Women, setting the novel at Orchard House, her family’s home in Concord.īy that time in her life, however, she was no longer rough-and-tumble Jo. Though she had been trying to publish a collection of short stories, her editor urged her to write something with a broader popular appeal, which could quickly make her money. Alcott, writing of the novel, said, “We really lived most of it, and if it succeeds that will be the reason of it.”Īlcott was prompted to write Little Women largely because of her family’s extreme poverty, much of which is captured in the book. The novel is largely autobiographical, based on the lives of Alcott, her three sisters, and her parents, Bronson Alcott, the controversial education reformer, and Abigail, a suffragist and abolitionist. ![]() Originally published in two volumes in 18, Little Women follows the four sisters of the March family as they navigate the territory between childhood and adulthood. “It’s so dreadful to be poor!” sighs Meg, the eldest of the March sisters, at the opening of Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women. ![]()
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