Eight Cousins

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Eight Cousins is about the tale of Rose Campbell, a well-off though sad and unhealthy young girl who has just been left without her parents and taken to share a home with her juvenile aunts. When Rose’s custodian, Uncle Alec, comes back from overseas he decided to take the responsibility of taking care of her. From his unconventional beliefs in the matter of fostering a child and her experience to the adventures of her 7 male cousins and innumerable aunts, Rose grew to be more contented and eventually restored her health. However, when the year ends, she must choose to which relative she wants to reside with.

Louisa May Alcott was part of the Abolitionism in the United States, a movement in the American Civil War to end slavery in the country and associated with feminism, a range of political and social movement with the main objective to attain and carry out political, economic, personal, and social rights for women.

Louisa May Alcott was a US writer and poet well known as the writer of the story Little Women and its series Little Men and Jo’s Boys . Nurtured by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she was also raised by the several renowned highbrows of those times including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

Louisa’s family went impoverished, and at the moment she took a job to provide sustenance for her family at a very young age, she also found an interest in composing novels and poetry. She started to earn significant fame for her works in the 1860s. In her first years as a writer, she would at times made use of the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, upon which she created stories for teenagers. Little Women is situated in the Alcott family house, Hillside, afterwards referred as the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is roughly sourced out on her life as a child together with her three sisters.
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