Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May, were educated by their father, philosopher and teacher Bronson Alcott, and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at...
Eight Cousins
Eight Cousins
Synopsis
After her father's death, young Rose Campbell is left to live with a clan of eccentric aunts and uncles at their grand New England estate. Surrounded by eight boisterous cousins and the unconventional Uncle Alec — who believes children should be raised in nature rather than under strict Victorian discipline — she learns what it means to belong. Along the way she forms an unlikely bond with Phebe, a lonely housemaid girl, and discovers that family is something you build as much as something you're born into.
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Characters
Rose CampbellProtagonist
Phebe MooreSupporting
Edition
Eight CousinsPaperback, 2007
224 pages
Courier CorporationLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97804864555942 editions available
