Good Wives

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As her sisters grow up, they begin to leave home, but Beth has no desire to leave her house or family.

I’m doing my best, ma’am, but can’t get much higher, I’m afraid, as six feet is about all men can do in these degenerate days,” responded the young gentleman, whose head was about level with the little chandelier. Most had read it or heard of it through one of the three movies (I think the Winona Ryder one is the best of the movie versions). Rivalry with the much richer Fred for Amy's love inspires the dissipated Laurie to pull himself together and become more worthy of her. They eventually marry and raise his two orphaned nephews, Franz and Emil, and their own sons, Rob and Ted. She followed it with three sequels, Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886) and she also wrote other books for both children and adults.

I love Little Women and have read it several times since I first sobbed over Beth as a young girl in elementary school. This whole book is so fascinating in the way it looks at femininity and marriage, and I really love how all of the sisters have different ideas of how they want to fit what is expected of them as women.

Ned Moffat had just married Sallie Gardiner, and Meg couldn’t help contrasting their fine house and carriage, many gifts, and splendid outfit, with her own, and secretly wishing she could have the same.

Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Tanning From Age, But Intact, No Loose Pages, Or Other Damage, Foxing, Otherwise An Unmarked, Clean, And Solid Copy. Beth, too timid for school, is content to stay at home and help with housework; and Amy is still at school. Somewhat modeled after the author's own mother, she is the focus around which the girls' lives unfold as they grow. You see, having said that if Meg married “that Brooke” she shouldn’t have a cent of her money, Aunt March was rather in a quandary, when time had appeased her wrath and made her repent her vow.