Abstract:
Little Women itself “has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth.”[2] Little Women has been read “as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well.”[2] Alcott “combines many conventions of the sentimental novel with crucial ingredients of Romantic children’s fiction, creating a new form of which Little Women is a unique model.”
