马奇一家有四个姐妹，生活清贫、简单而又温馨。四姐妹性格迥异；老大梅格漂亮端庄，有些爱慕虚荣；老二乔自由独立，渴望成为作家；老三贝丝善良羞涩，热爱音乐；老四埃米聪慧活泼，爱好艺术，希望成为一名上流社会的"淑女"。所有时代的所有少女成长过程中所要面对的经历的，都可以在这本书中找到：初恋的甜蜜和烦恼，理想和现实的差距，贫穷与富有的矛盾等等。（The March family has four sisters, living a simple, warm and poor life. The four sisters have different personalities. Meg is pretty and dignified, who is a little bit hypocratical. Jo is free and independent, aspiring to become a writer. Beth is kind-hearted, shy and loves music. Amy is smart and lively, loves art and hopes to become an upper-class lady. You can find all things faced by the young girls in all eras in the process of their growth, including the sweet and worrysome puppy love, the gap between ideals and realities, and contradictions between poverty and wealth, etc. ）