I was peacefully reading yet another article about Little Women (it's the 150th anniversary of the book's publication, so there are a lot of them out there), and it featured another quote from Anne Boyd Rioux:

"At the time, ‘Little Women’ was the most real book about women that had ever been written.” 

Uh... here's hoping that quote makes a HELL of a lot more sense in context, because Jane Austen and and I beg to differ.