Some of the best books by women for International Women's Day
Acquaint yourself with these female writers, and you'll make a friend for life in their books
Alcott only really wrote one series of note, but it's enough to secure her a place on every list of the 'best female writers', possibly for all time.
Little Women (and Good Wives and Jo's Boys, which followed) might not stand up to all our feminist requirements now featuring as they do highly obedient, meek, marriagable girls, but at the time of publication in 1868 their heartfelt story of poverty and survival resonated with a new, international, multi-class audience in a way books before had not. It is a book that unites people in their love for the March sisters.
