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