Little Women

Summary

Sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March grow up in genteel poverty in Civil War era New England, working, quarreling, and dreaming while their father serves away as an army chaplain. Alcott centers the book on Jo, a headstrong aspiring writer whose ambitions strain against the era's expectations for women. The novel's honest portrait of sisterhood and of a girl determined to make her own way has kept it beloved for more than 150 years.