Good Wives

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I had a copy with both books (I think most American editions come that way), so I had the immediate gratification of knowing what happens to all the sisters.

The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Alcott's novels are brought together here - 'Little Women' and 'Good Wives', the first two of the quartet which tell the story of the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they move from childhood to families of their own. A scholar and a minister, he serves as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War and is wounded in December 1862. Laurie is invited to one of the dances, and Meg's friends incorrectly think she is in love with him.This wonderful edition has a black and white frontispiece with a quote from chapter XXII: 'Prone upon the floor lay Mr. He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth. I am looking forward to reading Little Men and Jo’s Boys – just have to track down a copy of Little Men then off I will go! Green hardback(silver lettering to the spine,small nicks,scratches and crease on the cover and spine) in GC plus, no Dj cover.

Everything was done at last, even to Amy’s arranging different colored soaps to match the different colored rooms, and Beth’s setting the table for the first meal. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES and its various sequels have the same effect on me: I always resolve to be a better person when I’ve finished reading them–especially Anne’s line “Oh world, you are beautiful and I am happy to be here” (that’s a paraphrase from memory). At apple-picking time, Marmee celebrates her 60th birthday at Plumfield, with her husband, her three surviving daughters, their husbands, and her five grandchildren.For a classic, Little Women reads on the younger side of the spectrum, and I can imagine many parents reading this to their children, in the way that people used to read fairytales. Oh you are too kind – I am just the same- always making resolutions and five minutes later, there I am, mouth open, impatient ramblings issuing forth. Meg and John begin humbly, but I have a feeling that there will be quite as much happiness in the little house as in the big one.

Last week I was finally in the mood for a bit more Louisa May Alcott and so out came Good Wives, and I was enchanted all over again by the world of the March girls.I had suspected you would be another adorer of Little Women – I am so excited to be discovering the sequels for the first time. Eventually, Meg admits her feelings to Brooke, they defy Aunt March (who ends up accepting the marriage), and they are engaged. People who hire all these things done for them never know what they lose; for the homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them, and Meg found so many proofs of this, that everything in her small nest, from the kitchen roller to the silver vase on her parlor table was eloquent of home love and tender forethought.

Infused with quiet wisdom, she is the peacemaker of the family and gently scolds her sisters when they argue. Both the passion Little Women has engendered in diverse readers and its ability to survive its era and transcend its genre point to a text of unusual permeability. Adult elements of women's fiction in Little Women included "a change of heart necessary" for the female protagonist to evolve in the story. He has copies in his book of nineteenth-century images of devotional children's guides which provide background for the game of "pilgrims progress" that Alcott uses in her plot of Book One. Good Wives" opens three years later, with Meg and her family happily preparing for her marriage to John Brooke.It’s a shame Jo’s Boys and Little Men are not as good but in the face of Little Women and Good Wives can you get much better? Perfectly resigned to his discharge, he devoted himself to getting well, preparing for business, and earning a home for Meg. She followed it with three sequels, Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886) and she also wrote other books for both children and adults.