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Good Wives

Good Wives

By Louisa May Alcott

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It is three years since we last met the inimitable March sisters and much has changed since we left them as Little Women at the close of the last book. Meg, the eldest and most sensible of the sisters, is preparing to marry Mr Brooke. She no longer works as a governess, instead happily looking after her young twins, Demi and Daisy. Jo, as ever the life and soul of any gathering, goes to live in New York where she works as a governess. She is concerned that Laurie, the March girls&#39; friend and neighbour, may be planning to propose to her and she will have to refuse him because she doesn&#39;t love him. Beth, the sweet and kind third daughter, is becoming more ill by the day. She has never recovered from the scarlet fever and now it looks as though her health may go from bad to worse. And Amy, the darling baby of the family, seems finally to be catching up with her elder sisters. She goes on a tour to Europe, developing her considerable artistic skills and will end up surprising them all by marrying someone the family knows very well indeed... An intriguing sequel to the better known Little Women, Good Wives is a more mature book and shows some of the harsher realities the girls face in difficult times. Ultimately it is just as uplifting as its better known prequel with a strikingly modern message of female empowerment.

It is three years since we last met the inimitable March sisters and much has changed since we left them as Little Women at the close of the last book. Meg, the eldest and most

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Title

Good Wives

ISBN

9781780943268

Author

by Louisa May Alcott

Series

Little Women

Publisher

Imprint

Hesperus Press Ltd.

Publication Date

27 June 2014

Format

EPUB

Reading Options

Web browser / App
Adobe Digital Editions

Number of Pages

320

Filesize

361.4 KB

Interest Age

Adults / General ^(21-99)

Language

EN

NBS Text

Children's Fiction

ONIX Text

General/trade

Category

16th to 18th Century Fiction
19th Century Fiction
All Adult Titles
Classic Fiction
Classic Fiction (Pub. < 1900)
Fiction (Child / Teen)
General & Literary Fiction
Premier's Reading Challenge VIC eBooks
Premier's Reading Challenge VIC Level: 9-10

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'Good Wives is a glorious weep-a-minute...a more complex narrative that follows each of the girls' journeys, real or metaphorical, away from the parental home Independent 'Six generations of readers...

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Author Biography

Louisa May Alcott was born in Pennsylvania in 1832, the second of four daughters. Little Women, loosely based on her own experiences, was published in 1868 and was an immediate success. In her later years Alcott became involved with the women's suffrage movement. She published her last novel, Jo's Boys in 1886, and died in Boston on 6th March 1888 at the age of fifty-six.

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