Little Women Author:Louisa May Alcot Now that Little Women has been an established favorite with young readers for nearly a century, it is a little difficult to think of Lousia may Alcott as an innovator. Startling would, of course, be too strong a word for her subject matter, for Miss Alcott's was the Victorian era - an age of large, close-knit families and corporate domestic acti... more »vities. But it was also an age of paternal tyranny, rigid Sabbatarianism, and pompous didacticism, and to the young girl brought up on the percept of children were meant to be seen and not heard, the atmosphere in the March family must have seemed almost like a glimpse of heaven.« less