31 Facts About Little Women

Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers eager for more about the characters.

Little Women later recalled that she did not think she could write a successful book for girls and did not enjoy writing it.

Little Women spends six months with a friend of her mother who runs a boarding house in New York City, serving as governess for her two children.

Little Women has come to America from Berlin to care for the orphaned sons of his sister.

Little Women is unimpressed by the aimless, idle, and forlorn attitude he has adopted since being rejected by Jo, and inspires him to find his purpose and do something worthwhile with his life.

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Little Women is described as a beauty, and manages the household when her mother is absent.

Little Women has long brown hair and blue eyes and particularly beautiful hands, and is seen as the prettiest one of the sisters.

Little Women composes plays for her sisters to perform and writes short stories.

Little Women initially rejects the idea of marriage and romance, feeling that it would break up her family and separate her from the sisters whom she adores.

Little Women is especially close to Jo: when Beth develops scarlet fever after visiting the Hummels, Jo does most of the nursing and rarely leaves her side.

Little Women is never idle; she knits and sews things for the children who pass by on their way to and from school.

Little Women gives up her life knowing that it has had only private, domestic meaning.

Little Women is chosen by her aunt to travel in Europe with her, where she grows and makes a decision about the level of her artistic talent and how to direct her adult life.

The characters in Little Women are recognizably drawn from family members and friends.

Little Women's lack of financial independence was a source of humiliation to his wife and daughters.

Originally, Alcott did not want to publish Little Women, claiming she found it boring, and wasn't sure how to write girls as she knew few beyond her sisters.

Also, Little Women has several textual and structural references to John Bunyan's novel The Pilgrim's Progress.

Little Women "struggled" with her illustrative additions to her sister's book, but later improved her skills and found some success as an artist.

British influence, giving Part 2 its own title, Good Wives, has the book still published in two volumes, with Good Wives beginning three years after Little Women ends, especially in the UK and Canada, but with some US editions.

Some editions listed under Little Women appear to include both parts, especially in the audio book versions.

Little Women has copies in his book of nineteenth-century images of devotional children's guides which provide background for the game of "pilgrims progress" that Alcott uses in her plot of Book One.

Sarah Elbert, for instance, wrote that Little Women was the beginning of "a decline in the radical power of women's fiction", partly because women's fiction was being idealized with a "hearth and home" children's story.

In 2003 Little Women was ranked number 18 in The Big Read, a survey of the British public by the BBC to determine the "Nation's Best-loved Novel" ; it is fourth-highest among novels published in the US on that list.

Little Women has been one of the most widely read novels, noted by Stern from a 1927 report in The New York Times and cited in Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays.

Little Women repeatedly reinforced the importance of "individuality" and "female vocation".

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In Little Women, she imagined that just such an evolution might begin with Plumfield, a nineteenth century feminist utopia.

Little Women has a timeless resonance which reflects Alcott's grasp of her historical framework in the 1860s.

One-act stage version of "Little Women, " written by Gerald P Murphy opened in October 2010 at the Queensland Centre for the Performing Arts in Runnaway Bay Australia.

George Cukor directed the first sound adaptation of Little Women, starring Katharine Hepburn as Jo, Joan Bennett as Amy, Frances Dee as Meg, and Jean Parker as Beth.

Little Women was adapted into a television musical, in 1958, by composer Richard Adler for CBS.

Little Women has been made into a serial four times by the BBC: in 1950, in 1958, in 1970, and in 2017.