![]() ![]() ![]() In the early days, some people even found it too realistic to be interesting and worth reading as it lacked any fantastic elements (Sicherman 261).īeing classified as a “bildungsroman” by some scholars (Sicherman 257), Little Women offers lessons on womanhood, motherhood, and marriage not only to plentiful readers throughout generations, but first and foremost to the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth. Alcott’s stories have been praised by numerous sources as portraying stories and characters true to life (e.g Clark Sicherman Saxton). An important part of what made the book so popular was surely its realistic depiction of girlhood and family life. It still elicits powerful narratives of love and passion” (Sicherman 247). Throughout the last 150 years, the novel has continued to be important to girls and young women, providing a moral framework and important life lessons: “Reading the book has been a rite of passage for generations of adolescent and preadolescent females of the comfortable class. Known today as an “American classic, if not the seminal classic novel of American girlhood” (Cartmell and Simons 78), it has spoken to young girls’ hearts in the way it describes American family life and what it meant to be growing up female in the nineteenth century (Saxton 5). Since its publication in 1868, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, together with its second part Good Wives one year later, has enjoyed tremendous success, especially among young readers. ![]()
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