num_pages: 665
description: This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations. “Backgrounds and Contexts” includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcott’s own precursors to Little Women . “Criticism” reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Barbara Sicherman). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
language: English
title: Little Women (First Edition)
titlecomplete: Little Women (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
characters: Marmee, Josephine "Jo" March, Amy March, Margaret "Meg" March, Professor Bhaer, Beth March, John Brooke, Aunt March, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, Mr. March, James Laurence, Hannah Mullet
genres: Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Historical, Childrens, Young Adult, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 2138997
places: New England, Concord, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, London, England
series: Little Women
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company