Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott is best known for her novel Little Women. She was educated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who were family friends, as well as her father. His novel is still in the top ten most read books after the Bible. Little Women is set in the 1860s in Concord, Massachusetts. The story begins with four young girls trying to understand the importance of not being selfish, and follows the lives they live and how they transform into "little women". Since there is really no antagonist or villain depicted in this novel, Jo March is seen as the protagonist. As these girls grow into women, the reader experiences the trials and joyful moments of young girls as they become young adults. At the beginning of Little Women, Father has gone off into the Civil War as a union chaplain. The four sisters miss him very much and think that if he were here, Christmas would be better. When Marmee returns from her daily activities, she receives a letter from her father who persuades her...