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Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Good Wives. Sep 19, Shima rated it did not like it. Though I advise you to read them so maybe they can convince you to never read good wives] I'm so happy this book is over, because this little book gave me so much heartaches, headaches and agony I couldn't bear to read it more than a chapter at a time and it took ages to finish.

Though it wasn't my first time reading this book, It still struck me as much as the first time. I remember when I was , I loved little women with all my heart -though not a favorite book- It still h [Spoilers up ahead! I remember when I was , I loved little women with all my heart -though not a favorite book- It still had a especial place in my bookcase. I remember finishing it and dreaming of Joe's future as a successful writer and her happy home with Laurie, full of music and writing.

Then I read this book and well you can not begin to imagine how disappointed and depressed I was. My brain can understand that a lot of concepts in this book are related to the society of the time, but my heart certainly can't. It is truly hard to see sweet Meg and strong Jo give up their castles and dreams to go and be good little wives to poor , old men.

The entire talks about how women should apologize first in fights, take care of children and husband and never complain is just terrible and no matter how much you tell yourself - hello this book wasn't published yesterday! Then as childish as it seems - and probably is- Jo and Laurie not ending up together is like a big bucket of cold water dumped right on your head! Even worse, Laurie marrying Amy after Jo rejected him was so forced and terrible I wanted to smash my ipad!

These were actually Laurie's thoughts: "If you can't have one sister you should get the other and live happily! Imagine this proposal "Your sister rejected me but between all the other women in the word I chose you, because you remind me of her and I'm sure you can make me happy, just not as happy.

So I really really beg of you, If you loved little woman DO NOT read this because it will forever ruin the happy image of four strong sisters you probably have in mind. It will be one of those dreams gone with the wind. View all 21 comments. Shelves: read-in The sweet, playful March sisters have grown up.

Meg has married and is now a mother, Amy travels to Europe to refine her agreeable upbringing, Jo earns her living writing disposable best-sellers, even if the novel she had been working on is dismissed by the editors again and again.

And Beth keeps struggling with her ill health. View all 18 comments. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. If Little Women created my heart, Good Wives tore it apart. This book stole away a whole lot of the beautiful charm that Little Women had for me.

I simply couldn't bear with Jo's refusal to marry Teddy, because that's what I expected from them and a part of what I adored them for. I've always believed that love is friendship, and I hoped their heart-warming story from when they were children would have the future of a beautiful love.

I'd be happier if Teddy hadn't ever fallen in love with Jo, and if he hadn't married Amy. I never really liked Amy!! I'm trying to be happy for Jo, but I never imagined she would marry an old guy, or give up her writing. I just can't forgive her, she broke my heart! Little Women taught me that life is beautiful. Good Wives taught me that dreams don't come true. I don't care that the March sisters supposedly have a happy ending. They proved something I don't want to believe in - wonderful children became dull adults.

I wish I hadn't read it in the first place! View all 25 comments. My copies of this series splits book 1 into two volumes, Little Women and Good Wives. And my opinions on Little Women compared to Good Wives, despite them being techniqually the same book, are vastly and drastically, different.

It really had potential to be a new favorite as I adored part 1. But then everyone became a grown up and annoying as hell. Then becoming older was glow down. It lost the frivolous charm I loved before. But then, once I started this book, I realized that they were becoming so astronomically pretentious. I wasn't a fan of a lot of the things it was preaching. Then I realized, back to the fact that I think that them growing older is a contributing factor, is that it started to talk a lot about romance and marriage.

You would think that I should have taken the fact that this book was called "Good Wives" as a hint that this was going to be unbearable, but alas, here we are. She really became just a background character, and not even one I even slightly cared about.

Just a caregiver for her man child husband and nothing else. There was one aspect that especially irked me with that, which was how it dealt with the fact that Meg and John Brooke, her husband, who's doesn't really have a personality, were a bit disconnected because they were leading sperate lives.

With John always at work or at the neighbors discussing politics, and Meg taking care of the house and the twins, it almost made it seem like it was Meg's fault for not doing enough to satisfy him. When Meg expresses to her mother how she felt neglected, Mrs. March spins it as if Meg was perhaps the one neglecting him Because she is spending all her time taking care of her kids.

Which yeah, I just hate that logic so much. That's not how it works. Meg is overburdened by the task of this, and I'm sure Mr. Brooke, could insist upon helping if he wanted. I'm sure chitchating with the neighbors is less important than his own children. It's not Meg's job to make sure he doesn't fell "left out", and the difficulties of being a parent and maintaining the relationship shouldn't be all on her.

Why must she be the one to compromise everything? She is amazing. But her ending was pretty unsatisfactory. What happened to her writing? She literally just decided that the only entire life aspirations she had was running a boarding school for boys, and marrying Mr. Bhaer, a walking coffin. In my opinion Jo should have ended up single.

A strong independent women. But no, instead she settled for someone 10 minutes away from death. If not with Laurie, than what is so wrong with her being along? She would have been better off that way, y'all just aren't ready for that conversation. There is nothing wrong with that. It would have fit her character well. I don't even remember what she died of to be completely honest here. She rude and uptight.

She devoted her whole life to marrying rich, which same, we love that for her, but she's so unbelievably shallow. She was wholeheartedly ready to marry Fred because of how rich he was, the only thing that stopped her was Laurie who's even richer, keep that in mind. She claims she loves him, but if you ask me, he deserved better than her. Might I mention that she calls "My Lord".

That's embarrassing. I'm glad she secured her bag, but there is no need for her to stuck up to him like that. I also don't like how we just never find out what her art skills lead to. One trend I saw, is that all the sisters gave up their passions, Meg singing and acting, Jo writing, and Amy art, once they got married. Beth just died, so this doesn't apply to her, but still, what is up with that??

It felt so unnatural and forced. Almost like he felt as if Amy could be the only one to fill the whole that Jo left because of their relation, but he didn't really care for her.

My proof: " He consoled himself for the seeming disloyalty by the thought that Jo's sister was almost the same as Jo herself, and the conviction that it would be impossible to love any other women but Amy so soon and so well" Laurie has always had a more friendship type relationship with Jo, and a sibling bond with Amy. Friends to lovers as a trope is an acceptable one.

Do you know what trope isn't? Siblings to lovers. I don't care about the girls getting married. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in Two years later, she moved with her family to Boston and in to Concord, which was to remain her family home for the rest of her life.

Alcott early realized that her father could not be counted on as sole support of his family, and so she sacrificed much of her own pleasure to earn money by sewing, teaching, and churning out potboilers. Her reputation was established with Hospital Sketches , which was an account of her work as a volunteer nurse in Washington, D.

Moods , a "passionate conflict," was written for adults. Alcott's writing eventually became the family's main source of income. Throughout her life, Alcott continued to produce highly popular and idealistic literature for children. At the same time, her adult fiction, such as the autobiographical novel Work: A Story of Experience and A Modern Mephistopheles , a story based on the Faust legend, shows her deeper concern with such social issues as education, prison reform, and women's suffrage.

She realistically depicts the problems of adolescents and working women, the difficulties of relationships between men and women, and the values of the single woman's life. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator.

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In Mary Moffatt became the wife of the missionary and explorer David Livingstone - and her obedience and devotion eventually killed her. In , Margaret Forster married her school sweetheart Hunter Davies in a London Registry Office - and interpreted the role very differently. Between these two marriages is a huge gulf in which the notion of marriage changed immeasurably. Forster traces the shift in emphasis from submission to partnership, first through the marriage of one unconventional American, Fanny Osbourne, to Robert Louis Stevenson, in the late nineteenth century; and then through that of Jennie Lee to Aneurin Bevan in the s.

Why does a woman still want to be a wife in the twenty-first century? What is the value of marriage today? Why do couples still marry in church? These are some of the questions Forster asks as she weaves the personal experience of forty years through the stories of three wives who have long fascinated her.

In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess.

Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia.

But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity. In response to the presence of Indians, the shortage of labor, and the insecurity of social rank, Virginia's colonial government tried to reinforce its authority by regulating the labor and sexuality of English servants and by making legal distinctions between English and African women. This practice, along with making slavery hereditary through the mother, contributed to the cultural shift whereby women of African descent assumed from lower-class English women both the burden of fieldwork and the stigma of moral corruption.