Louisa May Alcott ended Little Women (1868) with the words "So the curtain falls upon Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
Alcott quickly completed a second volume, Good Wives (1869), and later Little Men (1871) and Jo\'s Boys (1886)..
Whether it ever rises again, depends upon the reception given the first act of the domestic drama called Little Women ." It was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers demanded to know more about the characters.
Louisa May Alcott ended Little Women (1868) with the words "So the curtain falls upon Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy