Future Good Wives, my niece and my daughter, clowning around in a hammock.

A while ago I finished reading Good Wives, part 2 of Little Women. I read Little Women in high school for my Honors English sophomore class. The version I read must have been a condensed version of both Little Women and Good Wives, because I remember Meg getting married, which happens at the beginning of Good Wives, Jo and Amy getting married, which happens at the end, and Beth dying, but I don’t remember a lot of the other stuff. Maybe I will review the movie this week.

This book is so delightful and charming! It features so many topics for discussion that relate to being female and having a good character. And then how to carry that on to be a good wife, mother, and homemaker. Some of it correlates with Fascinating Womanhood. We are going to discuss it this week at my online Zion Finishing School, from 2 to 4 PM MT on Friday October 21. We were going to do it last week but it didn’t work out so now it’s this week. Please comment below if you want to attend this session for free to try out the school if you haven’t done so already and I will send you the link.

I have lots of questions about Louisa May Alcott and Little Women/Good Wives. How much of it is autobiographical? I heard that LM based her story on the classic work Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan. Has anybody else heard this? LM supposedly found God at an early age but was she Christian? Did she attend church? How come she never married? Some internet sites I have found contend that her book is not a wholesome read for Christian young girls. Why would they say that? Join us for a rousing discussion!