Good Wives. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: Being a Sequel to 'Little Women'. With Illustrations by Jessie T. Mitchell

louisa may alcott

This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1897 edition by The Sunday School Union, London.

Genres classicsfictionromancehistorical fictionyoung adultchildrenshistoricalaudiobook19th centuryamerican

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1869

Series

Little Women

Places

concord massachusetts,

This edition

Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Published: December 1, 2005 by Adamant Media Corporation
ISBN: 9781402164811
ASIN: 1402164815
Language: English

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Marmee March

The March girls mother. Marmee is the moral role model for her girls. She counsels them through all of their problems and works hard but happily while her husband is at war....
Margaret Meg March

Eldest of the March sisters in Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott."Margaret, the eldest of the four, was sixteen, and very pretty, being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, of which she was rather va...
Amy March

Youngest of the March sisters in Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott."Amy, though the youngest, was a most important person, in her own opinion at least. A regular snow maiden, with blue eyes, and yellow hair curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and...
Hannah Mullet

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John Brooke

Tutor of Laurie Lawrence and suitor to Meg March in Little Women.more...
Josephine Jo March

Second of the March sisters and main protaganist of Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott.At the beginning of Little Women, Jo is 15 "very tall, thin, and brown, and reminded one of a colt for she never seemed to know what to do with her long limbs, which we...

About the author

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.