Book description
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.
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
