![]() ![]() One of the most popular juvenile books ever published, “Little Women is an outstanding achievement of 19th-century American literature, and the first children’s novel written in that country to have become an enduring classic.” “It is one of the first fictional texts for children to convey the difficulties and anxieties of girlhood, and… suggests that becoming a ‘little woman’ is a learned and often fraught process, not an instinctual or natural condition of female development” (Foster & Simon, 87). Drawing on memories of childhood, the author portrayed the daily lives of Amy, Jo, Beth and Meg March-portraits of the four Alcott sisters. In 1865, while serving as editor of Merry Museum, a Boston children’s magazine, Alcott received encouragement to write a book for girls. ![]() Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated. Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys.įirst edition, first issue of the second book it Alcott’s Little Women trilogy. ![]()
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