 Starting in 1855, the first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was published. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott's novel about four sisters living in Massachusetts, was published in 1868. Horatio Alger Jr.'s Mark the Match Boy was released in 1869. Sisters Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe released a domestic guide with The American Woman's Home in 1869.