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Rose in Bloom – A Sequel to “Eight Cousins”: Louisa M. Alcott, Sampson Low

There’s a picture on the front of my copy of an anachronistic girl (dressed for the period in which this book was published, and one period appropriate illustration before the story begins, which is of an event from the last chapter. I disapprove of both.

In between this sequel and ‘Eight Cousins’ (reviewed here), Rose, her uncle and Phebe, Read more... )
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Eight Cousins: Louisa M. Alcott, Rupert Hart-Davies, 1965.

Alcott is most famous for ‘Little Women’ and the series that followed. I read those classics as a child, but not only did I first read this book as an adult, I have a feeling that I read it after its sequel. ‘Rose in Bloom’. I hope to reread that next - in fact, that’s my bribe to get myself to read a realist literary novel - after being charmed by my reunion with Rose, her seven boy cousins and, indeed, all her family.

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