Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | Characters, Summary, Analysis
Louisa May Alcott was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet. She was born on November 29, 1832, and died on March 6, 1888. Her parents were transcendentalists and she recognized herself as an abolitionist and feminist who took an active part in social reform movements involving temperance and women’s suffrage. Her best-known work is the coming-of-age novel ‘Little Women’ which was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. In 1880, the two volumes were published as a single novel titled Little Women. Before that she she sometimes used pen names such as A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
The novel ‘Little Women’ is semi-autobiographical as it is hugely based on the life of the author Louisa May Alcott and her three sisters Abigail May Alcott, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Alcott. The subtitle of Little Women is Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and it tells about the four sisters and their struggles as they grow up from their childhood towards womanhood. The title suggests that the four sisters are surpassing their ‘childhood innocence’ while they are preparing themselves to face the inescapable woman problems that become more serious because of the biased society of that time when women in general were considered inferior or little as compared to men.
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