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Origin of literary title freely associated with Women, Chicken and Gidding? (6)

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I believe the answer is:

little

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'women chicken and gidding?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'origin of literary title freely' is the wordplay.
'origin of' suggests taking the first letters.
'freely' is an anagram indicator.
The first letter of 'literary' is 'l'.
'title' anagrammed gives 'ittle'.
'l'+'ittle'='LITTLE'

'associated with' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for little that I've seen before include "Book by Dickens" , "Novel heroine born in the Marshalsea" , "Small in quantity or degree" , "younger" , "Wee; minute" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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