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Little Women
Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott, which follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. The novel details their life from childhood to womanhood and loosely relates to the life of the author and her three sisters. 
Little Women was an immediate success and readers were engaged, instantly wanting to know more about Alcott's characters. She quickly completed a sequel entitled "Good Wives", which ended up in a single novel in 1880 called Little Women.
Little Women was a novel mainly made for girls. It addressed three major themes: domesticity, work, and true love. Each theme "interdependent and necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity". The novel can be read as a romance, coming age, family novel, or all of the above. According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from Romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from "sentimental novels". 
Alcott wrote two sequels to her popular work, both of which also featured the March sisters: Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Although Little Women was a novel for girls, it differed notably from the current writings for children, especially girls. The novel addressed three major themes: "domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity."[5]:200
Development History
In 1868, Thomas Niles, the publisher of Louisa May Alcott, recommended that she write a book about girls that would have widespread appeal. At first she resisted, preferring to publish a collection of her short stories. Niles pressed her to write the desired book first, as well as her father who also urged her to do so. Alcott was hesitant because she felt that she couldn't write a successful book for girls and didn't enjoy writing it. 
By June, Alcott had sent the first dozen chapters to her publisher, and both agreed these were dull. But Niles' niece Lillie Almy read them and said she enjoyed them. The completed manuscript was shown to several girls, who agreed it was "splendid".