Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers eager for more about the characters. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters, it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel. Little Women has been said to address three major themes: "domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent