Full name: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

Author: Anne Boyd Rioux Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Biographies, Classic, Feminism Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393254730 0393254739

In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, Rioux recounts how Louisa May Alcott came to write Little Women, drawing inspiration for it from her own life. Rioux also examines why this tale of family and community ties, set while the Civil War tore America apart, has resonated through later wars, the Depression, and times of changing opportunities for women. Rioux sees the novel's beating heart in Alcott's portrayal of family resilience and her honest look at the struggles of girls growing into women. In gauging its current status, Rioux shows why Little Women remains a book with such power that people carry its characters and spirit throughout their lives. Similar books: Author Unknown by Donald W. Foster The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster Pranklopedia by Julie Winterbottom Very Good Lives by J. K. Rowling Dangerous Books for Girls by Maya Rodale Bunk by Kevin Young Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson Hidden America by Jeanne Marie Laskas They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery Sojourner Truth by Patricia C. McKissack Caesars' Wives by Annelise Freisenbruch The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Rad Girls Can by Kate Schatz The Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Stefan Zweig To Tell the Truth Freely by Mia Bay The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu The Alexiad of Anna Comnena by Anna Comnena