"We 've got Father and Mother and each other," said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott 'sLittle Women; and, "I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world ", burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family , which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; and the Szold family , as it developed , bore a striking resemblance to the Marches .