[Literature] Alcott, Louisa M. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - Part Second. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Second state, with page iv, with mention of First Part. Frontis with tissue guard, 8vo. iv, 5-359pp [1] with 8 pages of ads in back, with an additional 3 plates. Bound in original red/brown cloth, brown endpapers, gilt on front cover bright.In 1865, while serving as editor of Merry Museum, a Boston children's magazine, Alcott received encouragement to write a book for girls. Drawing on memories of childhood, the author portrayed the daily lives of Amy, Jo, Beth and Meg March--portraits of the four Alcott sisters. One of the most popular juvenile books ever published, "Little Women is an outstanding achievement of 19th-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in that country to have become an enduring classic." "It is one of the first fictional texts for children to convey the difficulties and anxieties of girlhood, and. suggests that becoming a 'little woman' is a learned and often fraught process, not an instinctual or natural condition of female development" (Foster & Simon, 87). Published separately in consecutive years, the first part of Little Women "did not sell at first. Part Second was therefore also issued in a small edition, but it went like wildfire, and pulled Part First along with it" (Grolier 74). Minimal wear to covers and spine, spine faded.

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