Book · 1869 · Fiction

Little Women

Name: Little Women
Author: Louisa May Alcott

Puffin Books (Penguin Random House) · 777 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Four sisters grow up poor in a Massachusetts town while their father serves in the Civil War. Jo March wants to write, and readers have measured their own ambition against hers ever since.

Genre

Coming of age

Medium

Novel

Subject

Sisterhood and female friendship Gender roles

Setting

Massachusetts

Time

1869Depicts American Civil WarDepicts 1860s

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Quote · 1847

“Man for the field and woman for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the needle she: Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion.”

Alfred Tennyson

Quote · 1935

“Historically our own culture has relied for the creation of rich and contrasting values upon many artificial distinctions, the most striking of which is sex...If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”

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Quote · 62

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”