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Good Wives

By Louisa May Alcott
Series: Virago Modern Classics
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Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they navigate the challenges and joys of adulthood after the conclusion of Little Women. The story captures their personal growth, relationships, and the pursuit of fulfilment, amidst the backdrop of 19th-century America. As they each face trials and triumphs, the book explores themes of love, family, and personal ambition.
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You might enjoy this captivating continuation of the March sisters' lives as they navigate marriage, family, and personal growth. This charming sequel to a beloved classic explores themes of love, ambition, and domestic happiness, making it perfect for readers who appreciate heartwarming stories of familial bonds and personal development.

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Good Wives

Little Women is one of the most beloved novels in children's literature. A perennial classic with fans over the world. Good Wives is the second book in the series.

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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

With four lively, attractive women in one house and a dashing young bachelor in the neighbouring one, romance can only be a matter of time. As Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy become young women, they take separate paths in life, following their dreams, finding love, becoming wives, and travelling the world. But the tie that binds the sisters brings them together when tragedy strikes, for only with each other can they find the comfort they need.

Also in Virago Classic Children's Books: LITTLE WOMEN, LITTLE MEN, JO'S BOYS

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349011837

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 200.0mm

Height: 132.0mm

Weight: 312g

Pages: 400

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Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Louisa May Alcott Series: Virago Modern Classics

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott was born in Pennsylvania in 1832. Like the character of Jo March in Little Women, young Louisa didn't conform to the restrictions placed on girls of the period: 'No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race,' she claimed, 'and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences.' And, also like Jo, she was highly imaginative and writing was an early passion.

As her family was often in financial difficulty, Louisa worked from a young age to support her family, taking any position available: a governess, domestic servant, seamstress and teacher were among her jobs. She also wrote poetry and short stories for popular magazines, and melodramatic novels under a pseudonym. When the American Civil War began, Louisa, who fervently opposed slavery, lamented that women weren't able to fight, and volunteered as a nurse at the Union Hospital in Georgetown, Washington. Her nursing career was brief as she contracted typhoid, but she wrote Hospital Sketches, a truthful and poignant account based on letters she wrote home to her family in Concord, and it was published to great acclaim.

In 1868 Louisa was asked by her publisher to write 'a girls' story'. This resulted in Little Women, which is largely based on the experiences of the author and her three sisters. It was a phenomenal success. In a time when children's books were morality tales featuring idealised, two-dimensional protagonists, Little Women was revolutionary, peopled as it was by relatable, flawed, fully realised characters. Its success guaranteed financial stability for Louisa, who continued the March family's story in Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Louisa never married, concluding that 'liberty is a better husband than love.' She died in 1888 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.

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