The aim of the research work is a determination of the peculiarities of development of American women’s "family chronicle" genre of XIX- ХХ century. The article study the novels «Little Women» of Louisa May Alcott and «How theGarcia Girls Lost their Accents» of H.Alvares, writing in genre of family chronical. The scientific novelty of the research work is: the works of American family chronicle of the XIX-XXcentury have been philologically analysed for the first time for them typical particularity, to display the familial state of women in USA. The article raises a question of identification of the place of women in family chronical novel of L.M. Alcott and H.Alvares distinguishing "family chronical" as epic work of literature and family chronicle novel about family relations in America and Europe in the second half of XIX century.