She drew on her own childhood experiences and found that she and her sisters had gone through much of what the four March sisters experienced in their lives.
Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women at the request of her publisher, who wanted a book for girls. Alcott had an ambivalent relationship with what she called “moral pap for the young.” She drew on her own childhood experiences and found that she and her sisters had gone through much of what the four March sisters experienced in their lives.