Little Women

American  

noun

1. a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott.

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Little Women Cultural  

1. (1868–1869) A novel by Louisa May Alcott, about four sisters growing up in New England in the nineteenth century. The sequel, Little Men, was published in 1871.

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Example Sentences

I read and reread the “Meg Goes to Vanity Fair” chapter of “Little Women,” in which the oldest March sister is invited to a friend’s estate and is so mortified at being treated like a threadbare charity case that she gives in to envy and allows her hosts to doll her up in what her disapproving young neighbor Laurie calls “feathers and fuss.”

From Salon

Gerwig made Louisa May Alcott’s language her own for 2019’s “Little Women” and I don’t expect her to subjugate her signature voice to C.S.

From Los Angeles Times

After reading Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” she explained, she yearned for more “old-fashioned” stories centering girls and women.

From Los Angeles Times

They may also be feeding a deep, childhood notion of home we carry in our heads, something we read in “Little House on the Prairie” or “Little Women,” an idealized vision of family happiness.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sisterhood wouldn’t be sisterhood without “Little Women,” Louisa May Alcott’s foundational depiction of the vicissitudes of 19th century family life in New England.

From The Wall Street Journal