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Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, it was published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. The novel follows the lives of four sister Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. Margaret "Meg" March: At sixteen, she is the oldest sister. She is very pretty, proper, and somewhat old fashioned. She is the most responsible and helps run the household in her mother's absence. Meg also guards Amy from Jo when they have fights, just as Jo protects Beth. Due to the family's poverty she must work as a governess for a wealthy family in the town, Kings. After having bad experiences with some rich people (first, the Kings' eldest son is disinherited for bad behavior, and later she visits her friend Annie Moffat and discovers that her family believes Mrs. March is plotting to match her with Laurie only to gain his family's wealth), Meg learns that true worth does not lie with money. She falls in love with Mr. John Brooke, Laurie's tutor. She eventually marries Mr. Brooke and bears twin children, Margaret "Daisy" and John Laurence "Demi" (short for Demi-John). A third child, Josephine (called "Josie"), is born by the time Little Men begins and all three children are major characters in Jo's Boys.