SOURCE: "Little Women: The American Female Myth," in Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991, pp. 42-64.
In the following chapter from a critical study of American women's writing, Showalter considers the reasons for the sustained popularity of Alcott's Little Women among American female readers of diverse backgrounds.
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