Little Women

Setting

Characters

Plot Summary

Themes

Author Analysis

Context

References

• Alcott, L. M. (1987). Little women. New York, NY: Children’s Classics.
• Alcott, L. M. (1989). The journals of Louisa May Alcott. J. Myerson & D. Shealy (Eds.). Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company.
• Crew, H. S. (2012). Louisa May Alcott. Children & Libraries, 10(3).

References

• Franklin, R. F. (1999). Louisa May Alcott's father(s) and "The Marble Woman". American Transcendental Quarterly, 13(4).
• May, J. P. (1994). Feminism and children's literature: Fitting Little Women into the American literary canon. Children’s Literature Review, 146.

References

• Sands-O’Connor, K. (2001). Why Jo didn't marry Laurie: Louisa May Alcott and The Heir of Redclyffe. Children’s Literature Review. 109.
• Wertheimer, L. (2009, December 28). Alcott: 'Not the little woman you thought she was'. [Interview]. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121831612