![]() When the reader enters into Eight Cousins, Rose has been living with her great-aunts for a year. Alec’s face banished it without a word, as he opened wide his arms and she ran into them, feeling that home was here.” ―Eight Cousins “If she really had any doubt, the look in Dr. Very quickly, however, Uncle Alec returns home to set things to rights and all is more than well. Because of a family estrangement, Rose barely knows her extended family, and her grief is compounded by the strangeness of her new situation and so many family members to know and try to please. ![]() ![]() After the death of her parents, she moves to the “Aunt Hill” – a neighborhood of houses occupied by aunts, great aunts, and cousins while she waits for her guardian, Uncle Alec, to return from foreign travel. Shy and sickly Rose Campbell is an orphaned heiress. Eight Cousins is easily compared to Little Men and is at least equally charming. ![]() In a format that is similar to the Jo March books, Alcott wrote a pair of books about Rose Campbell and her seven male cousins. ![]() “It does seem to me that some one might write stories that should be lively, natural, and helpful tales in which the English should be good, the morals pure, and the characters such as we can love in spite of the faults that all may have.” ― Eight Cousins ![]()
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