Fiction · 1875
Eight Cousins
Eight Cousins, first published in 1875, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 — Two Girls
- Chapter 2 — The Clan
- Chapter 3 — Uncles
- Chapter 4 — Aunts
- Chapter 5 — A Belt and a Box
- Chapter 6 — Uncle Alec’s Room
- Chapter 7 — A Trip to China
- Chapter 8 — And what came of it
- Chapter 9 — Phebe’s Secret
- Chapter 10 — Rose’s Sacrifice
- Chapter 11 — Poor Mac
- Chapter 12 — “The Other Fellows”
- Chapter 13 — Cosey Corner
- Chapter 14 — A Happy Birthday
- Chapter 15 — Ear-Rings
- Chapter 16 — Bread and Button-Holes
- Chapter 17 — Good Bargains
- Chapter 18 — Fashion and Physiology
- Chapter 19 — Brother Bones
- Chapter 20 — Under the Mistletoe
- Chapter 21 — A Scare
- Chapter 22 — Something to do
- Chapter 23 — Peace-Making
- Chapter 24 — Which?
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About the author
1832–1888 · Victorian
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, the daughter of the transcendentalist educator Bronson Alcott, with Emerson and Thoreau as family friends. She worked as a teacher, seamstress and Civil War nurse (Hospital Sketches, 1863) and wrote sensational stories under a pseudonym before Little Women (1868–69), drawn from her own family, made her famous. Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886) followed. She was active in abolition and women’s suffrage.
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