She also makes friends with Phebe, her aunts' young housemaid, whose cheerful attitude in the face of poverty helps Rose to understand and value her own good fortune.Įach chapter describes an adventure in Rose's life as she learns to help herself and others make good choices. Through his unorthodox theories about child-rearing, she becomes happier and healthier while finding her place in her family of seven boy cousins and numerous aunts and uncles.
When Rose's guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, he takes over her care. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden great aunts (yet having a guardian), who are the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family. Rose and her Aunts, frontispiece illustration to the first edition, Roberts Bros, Boston, 1875Įight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott.
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