![]() ![]() Little Women is a coming-of-age story in which each of the four sisters comes to reconcile with her own distinct personality and aspirations. Alcott’s most well-known novel which follows the stories of four 19th-century New England sisters: Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott Call Number: Children's 813.4 A355L Alcott, Louisa May, and Hilda Van Stockum. Though Little Women is at times associated with a traditionalist outlook on womanhood, Alcott was actually progressive for her time, promoting women’s rights through her writing and becoming the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Connecticut. Alcott studied under other writers like Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and she was also inspired by the 19th century transcendentalist movement that both she and her parents were born into. Born in Pennsylvania in 1832, she began writing at age eight and published her first book by age twenty two. ![]() Louisa May Alcott was a passionate, imaginative writer with a simple and elegant style. ![]()
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