Little Women (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- First Published: 1868
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Didactic
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: A New England village, New York City, and Italy
- Principal Characters: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, Mrs. March, Mr. March, Theodore Lawrence, Professor Bhaer
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism, Didactic literature
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Values, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Gender roles, Nineteenth century, New York City, Marriage, Villages, Friendship, Manners or customs, Social life, New England, Poverty or poor people, Women’s issues, Civil War, Sisters, Women, Death or dying, Small-town life, Work or workers, Italy or Italians, Sacrifice, Materialism, Career women, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: New York, NY, Italy, New England
The Story:
The March family lived in a small house next door to the Lawrence mansion, where young Theodore Lawrence and his aged grandfather had only each other for company. Old Mr. Lawrence was wealthy, and he indulged every wish of his grandson, but often Laurie was lonely. When the lamp was lit and the shades were up in the March house, he could see the four March girls, with their mother in the center, seated around a cheerful fire. He learned to know them by name before he met them, and in his imagination, he almost felt himself a member of the family.
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