Book· 1868· Literary

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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Little Women

Film · 2019

AdaptationHIGH

Greta Gerwig's film adapts Louisa May Alcott's novel about the four March sisters, telling it out of order between their adult lives and their childhood, and framing Jo's story around the publication of her own book.

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  • Louisa May Alcott's family

Alcott based the four March sisters on herself and her own sisters, and Jo on herself.

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Little Women

The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters, it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.