Good Wives

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Yes, Mother, I’m sure of that,” said Meg, listening respectfully to the little lecture; for the best of women will hold forth upon the all-absorbing subject of housekeeping. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. I wasn’t totally happy with how all the sister’s stories tied up in Good Wives, but it was lovely to see them each find happiness in their own way. Amy Curtus March's marriage to Theodore Lawrence,and His and Amy's daughter Elizabeth's golden curls and gifts. Dj Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, With A One Very Small Chips On The Top Of Spine , 8 colour plates 2 of Louisa M.

Alcott readily corresponded with readers who addressed her as "Miss March" or "Jo", and she did not correct them. Beth, too timid for school, is content to stay at home and help with housework; and Amy is still at school. citation needed] Editions are shown in continuous print from many publishers, as hardback, paperback, audio, and e-book versions, from the 1980s to 2015. One reason the novel was so popular was that it appealed to different classes of women along with those of different national backgrounds, at a time of high immigration to the United States.When Aunt March overhears Meg accepting John's declaration of love, she threatens Meg with disinheritance because she suspects that Brooke is only interested in Meg's future prospects. A lcott’s family were part of the transcendentalist movement, which theorizes that people are naturally good but are corrupted by society and it’s vices. Little Women felt like such a comforting book, whereas this one is definitely slightly deeper and darker. It was a tiny house, with a little garden behind and a lawn about as big as a pocket handkerchief in front.

I was in the most unpleasant depths of a cold, and my brain felt as though it was stuffed with cotton wool. While Little Women showed regular lives of American middle-class girls, it also "legitimized" their dreams to do something different and allowed them to consider the possibilities. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters, [3] [4] : 202 it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel. But it turns out I’ve only ever seen the Book 1 and Book 2 version of Little Women, so I didn’t miss out after all. 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.

But great plans fermented in her busy brain and ambitious mind, and the old tin kitchen in the garret held a slowly increasing pile of blotted manuscript, which was one day to place the name of March upon the roll of fame. 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. However, I absolutely adored this book and it gave me a lot to think about, as I dripped tears onto the pages, laughed, and gave satisfied sighs at these delightful girls’ various antics. I then borrowed my boyfriend’s copy of the Penguin Paperback Classic (found here) which contains both parts so I could finish the story properly!