Good Wives (Puffin Classics)

Good Wives (Puffin Classics)

by Louisa May Alcott (Author)

Synopsis

When Little Women came to its last chapter Meg was engaged and the other three March girls, Beth, Jo and Amy, were at the threshold of young-womanhood. Good Wives opens three years later, with Meg and her family happily preparing for her marriage to John Brooke.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 28 Sep 1995

ISBN 10: 0140621903
ISBN 13: 9780140621907
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years

Author Bio
Louisa May Alcott (1832--88) was brought up in Pennsylvania, USA. She turned to writing in order to supplement the family income and had many short stories published in magazines and newspapers. Then, in 1862, during the height of the American Civil War, Louisa went to Georgetown to work as a nurse, but she contracted typhoid. Out of her experiences she wrote Hospital Sketches (1864) which won wide acclaim, followed by an adult novel, Moods. She was reluctant to write a children's book but then realized that in herself and her three sisters she had the perfect models. The result was Little Women (1868) which became the earliest American children's novel to become a classic