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Rose Campbell has spent two years in Europe, and now she comes home, all grown up. Her seven cousins have grown up too, and some of them want to marry her. Rose is rich, but she does not want to sit around looking pretty. She wants to do real work, help poor girls, and choose her own life. This gentle book is about a young woman learning who she wants to be.
Rose Campbell comes home after two years in Europe. She is grown up now, and rich, and she wants her life to mean something. At home wait her seven Campbell cousins, all grown up too. Some are kind, some are silly, and more than one of them wants to marry her. Each cousin who courts her, that means tries to win her love, shows Rose a different kind of life she could choose.
The book is built as a series of tests. Cousin Charlie is the golden boy. Cousin Mac is the bookish one. As Rose meets each one, she learns what she values, and Alcott lets us watch her think, in her talks, her work among poor girls, and her quiet decisions. Nothing explodes, but everything matters.
It works because Rose is treated as a person with a mind, not a prize to be won. Her money could let her do nothing, and the book's real story is her choosing work, duty, and love in her own time. It is a gentle book, but its idea is strong: a young woman can build her own self.
Rose Campbell comes home from two years in Europe grown up, wealthy, and determined to do something worthwhile with her life, and she finds all seven of her Campbell cousins grown up too, several of them determined to marry her. Alcott uses each suitor to test a different idea of what a young woman should be. The real pleasure is watching Rose think, refuse to be merely rich and ornamental, and insist on choosing her own future.
Rose Campbell comes home from two years in Europe grown up, wealthy, and determined to do something worthwhile with her life. She finds all seven of her Campbell cousins grown up too, and several of them determined to marry her. Louisa May Alcott uses the suitors the way she used the aunts in Eight Cousins: each one tests a different idea of what a young woman should be, from Charlie the golden boy to Mac the bookish one. Rose refuses to be merely rich and ornamental, takes up serious work among poor girls, and insists on choosing her own future in her own time.
Starvard carries Rose in Bloom as the sequel to Eight Cousins, shelved right after it, and as a quieter companion to Little Women. It earns its place for the honesty of its heroine's building: this is a novel about a young woman deliberately making a self, tested by money, family, and love, and Alcott trusts her readers to enjoy watching Rose think. Readers who love Alcott, and anyone who enjoys courtship novels where the heroine's mind matters most, will feel at home here.
Edition: Text: Project Gutenberg ebook 2804.
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ROSE IN BLOOM
Title: Rose in Bloom
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Release date: September 1, 2001 [eBook #2804]
Most recently updated: February 26, 2021
Language: English
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ROSE IN BLOOM
Source: Project Gutenberg. Published 1876. Author died 1888. Public domain. Share this book: WhatsApp
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