Little Women

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Little Women is a classic coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott that follows the lives, struggles, and personal growth of the four March sisters during and after the American Civil War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American literature
children's literature
coming-of-age novel
novel
alsoKnownAs Little Women
surface form: Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
author Louisa May Alcott
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstPartPublicationYear 1868
followedBy Good Wives
genre children's novel
coming-of-age
domestic fiction
family saga
hasAdaptation Little Women (1933 film)
Little Women (1949 film)
Little Women (1994 film)
Little Women (2019 film)
Little Women (TV series, 1970)
Little Women (TV series, 2017)
Little Women (anime)
Little Women (musical)
hasTheme coming of age
domestic life
family
female independence
sisterhood
influenced feminist readings of domestic fiction
later young adult fiction
literaryMovement Realism
literarySignificance classic of American literature
mainCharacter Amy March
Beth March
Jo March
Laurie
Marmee March
Meg March
Mr. March
Laurie (Theodore Laurence)
surface form: Theodore Laurence
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage English
placeOfPublication Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston
protagonist Jo March
publicationYear 1868
publisher Roberts Brothers
secondPartPublicationYear 1869
settingPeriod American Civil War
post–American Civil War
targetAudience general audience
young readers

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Laurie Laurence firstAppearance Little Women
Little Women (1994 film score) adaptationOf Little Women
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this entity surface form: Little Women (1868–1869)
Katharine Hepburn as Jo March basedOn Little Women
this entity surface form: Little Women (novel)
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