Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts‘ alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcott‘s widely-read novel Little Women (1868), Eight Cousins (1875) is unusually forward-thinking and feminist for its time.Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American writer and feminist. She grew up poor, but among intellectualists, and started writing at an early age. Her most famous novel, Little Women (1868), was inspired by her upbringing.
Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts‘ alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcott‘s widely-read novel Little Women (1868), Eight Cousins (1875) is unusually forward-thinking and feminist for its time.Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American writer and feminist. She grew up poor, but among intellectualists, and started writing at an early age. Her most famous novel, Little Women (1868), was inspired by her upbringing.
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Germantown, Pensilvania, 1832-Boston, Massachusetts, 1888. Recibió de su padre buena parte de su educación y estuvo en contacto con algunas personalidades destacadas, como Emerson, Thoreau o Theodore Parker. Desempeñó diversos trabajos para sobrellevar las dificultades económicas de su familia formada por cuatro hermanas y los padres de ella, y decidió trabajar como enfermera voluntaria durante la Guerra de Secesión, experiencia que recogió en el libro Hospital Sketches (1863). No obstante, pronto tuvo que abandonar esa ocupación porque contrajo el tifus. A partir de entonces pudo dedicarse por completo a la escritura. Entre los libros que publicó se cuentan algunos relatos que aparecieron bajo pseudónimo. Fue gracias a la publicación de Mujercitas (1868-1869) que se convirtió en una escritora verdaderamente popular. El éxito fue rotundo e inmediato, y a esta le siguieron otras novelas como Una muchacha anticuada (1870), Hombrecitos (1871), Trabajo. Un relato de vivencias (1873), Eight cousins (1875) o Rose in Bloom (1876).
