LITTLE WOMEN: MEG,JO,BETH AND AMY

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg,
Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.
The novel addresses three major themes: "domesticity, work, and true love,
all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity.
Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from Romantic children's fiction and combined
it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new format. Elbert argues that within Little Women
can be found the first vision of the "All-American girl"