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Good Wives is the second book of Little Women, the story of the lovely March sisters. The March sisters are all grown up and they need to find futures for themselves. Summary of the Book The March sisters and their friend Laurie are grown up now and need to find their own futures. While they all look forward to something good, life only gets more difficult for them. Meg has a very disappointing lesson in housekeeping and Laurie is left with a broken heart. Also, there is a terrible tragedy that has a major impact on the sisters. They struggle to find happiness and purpose in life. With the love they have for each other, and support from one another, they work their way through all their hardships. About Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist who is best known as the author of Little Women. The book has two sequels to it: Little Men and Jo’s Boys. Her parents were transcendentalists and she had the grown up around many intellectuals of the time who are well-known even today, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. She received appreciation for her writing in the 1860’s, and has sometimes use the pen name A. M. Barnard that was used for her novels for young adults.