Book Bearings
Cover of Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott

Good Wives

  • 320 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1870
  • 105 editions
  • Free to read

Bookshop.org links may earn us a commission. It supports independent bookstores and costs you nothing.

1 About this book

Three years from Little Women, this is the second story about the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and their friend Laurie as each grows from childhood into adulthood. Life promises adventures, fulfillment and painful trials along the way, marriage, disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all, each of them finally finds happiness, if not always in the way they expect.

  • Women, biography
  • Sisters
  • Married women
  • Young women
  • Girls
  • Children's fiction
  • Women
  • Married people

2 Read it free, right here

A free scan from the Internet Archive opens right here on the page, with no sign-up.

Read it on the Internet Archive

3 About Louisa May Alcott

1832–1888

Louisa May Alcott ( AWL-kət; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886).

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

4 More by Louisa May Alcott

5 Similar books

Find a book that fits your moment