#good wives

[justmeandmyships]

How People think Laurie acted after Jo's rejection: Oh no! What am I going to do without Jo?! 😭😭😭 She's the love of my life. I loveeeee her...well I guess there's her annoying sister Amy, I guess I have to settle down and fix my broken heart. At least I'll be close to Jo 😭😭😭.

How Laurie (from the books) really acted: Oh no Jo rejected me...oh look there's Amy she looks so beautiful... what no. I need to cry for Jo...but I didn't know how much I missed Amy. thinks in Amy ... Laurie stop it You're in love with Jo... I'm supposed to stay here only for a few days but I stayed a whole month because being with Amy is so fun...no!!! I'm supposed to be sad... sad about whom? How was her name...why is Amy dancing with everyone but me 😭😭😭😭...I hate my childhood friend Fred suddenly like why does he exist?!!! 😑😑😑...oh right Jo!!!... I love her. Yes ...why I am not sad about her??!! I'm supposed to be heartbroken. I'm not this shallow. I'll proposed to Jo again and marry her even if I am miserable for the rest of my life before admitting my feelings weren't that deep and she was right....wait. why does Amy despise me 😭😭😭😭😭😭....writes an opera with a female lead exactly like Amy...Beth died, even though I'm closer to everyone else I'm going to travel across Europe and be there for Amy even if she despise me 😭😭😭. She needs me. Poor her.... wait do I love Amy?... how is this possible??...I wish we always pull the same boat, will you, Amy?.🥰🥰🥰

#otp #lol #amy x laurie #my babies #little women #amy & laurie #amy march #laurie laurence #Amy Laurence #good wives #You gotta love my boy

[shakespear-esque]

Louisa May Alcott, from Good Wives

#classic academia #classic academia aesthetic #light academia #light acadamia aesthetic #romantic academia #romantic academia aesthetic #literature academia #classic literature #literature #little women #good wives #louisa may alcott #book quotes #booklr #beth march #jo march #meg march #amy march

[kemetic-dreams]

Nyambura means of rain. These ladies are loyal and loving to those around them. They generally make good wives and smile less often, at least genuinely

 Read more: https://www.tuko.co.ke/354993-best-kikuyu-female-names-meaning.html

#nyambura #kenyan #kemetic dreams #african names #rain #kikuyu #kikuyu names #kikuyu name #origin of names #origin of name #east african language #East African #good wives

[ankitahere]

#cucklife #sexy thick #desi wife #good wives #slutty selfies #indian stuff #bhabhi #18+ post #r@petoy #sissy and slave

[abybweisse]

HPB, back on 10/9

The four items on the top and the one on the bottom to the farthest left are actually lined journals printed by Flame Tree. Lower middle book is also a Flame Tree publication. There are two more Chiltern publications. Everything is fuqqin shiny and feels embossed... except this edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Someone stop me from buying books. I can't read them that fast....

But I did read this. It nearly made me cry! Now I want all The Dark Tower books.... 🤦🏻‍♀️

#off topic #books #half price books #my stuff #stuff i bought #good wives #the tenant of wildfell hall #louisa may alcott #anne bronte #anne brontë #oscar wilde #the picture of dorian gray #stephen king #beryl evans #charlie the choo choo #journals #flame tree #chiltern #100 tales of life and love #the decameron #giovanni boccaccio #oct 11 2023 #the dark tower

[bookguide]

“I want to do something splendid… something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.”

— Louisa May Alcott, The Inheritance

#louisa may alcott #the inheritance #little women #good wives #Jo’s boys #book quotes #quotes #bibliophile #books and libraries #keep reading #bookguide #currently reading #new books #aesthetic #writer #writing novels #novels #author

[traitor-for-hire]

Ok, I finally have some time to work on translating Little Women - and I'm almost done! Since I'm working on "Under the umbrella". However.

There's is this loooong piece of Jo's poetry near the end, and translating poetry is difficult enough when you understand the text, but when you have no idea what it is about, it becomes near impossible.

First two verses went pretty well, but there's a bit in Jo's verse, and then another in Beth's, that leave me perplexed. If anyone feels like helping, I'd be really grateful <3

Putting the parts I mentioned under the cut:

Half-writ poems, stories wild, Appril letters, warm and cold, Diaries of a wilful child, Hints of a woman early old,

This part is in Jo's verse, and what bothers me is "April letters, warm and cold" - I'm aware that it's most probably a filler line, but I still don't get it - why April? and "warm and cold"?? I can translate it litterally, sure, but. Feels weird.

As for Beth' verse

The silver bell, so seldum rung, The little cap which she last wore, The fair, dead Catherine that hung By angels borne above her door;

The "fair, dead Catherine" part? My annotated edition says something about Saint Catherine of Siena, so I suppose it's some kind of pious illustration, hanging above her door? ...maybe with angels, or maybe with angels on the frame??? I don't know, really

So... yeah. Back to work

#little women #good wives #jo march #beth march #louisa may alcott #poetry #translation

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Little Women

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 1868

Genres: fiction, classics, historical fiction, romance

Blurb: Tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy are united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.

#little women #good wives #little men #jo's boys #louisa may alcott #series #1868 #fiction #classics #historical fiction #romance

[b1tches-br0es-nonbinaryh0es]

Been reading Little Women and I don’t see how anyone could hate Amy.

Yes, she burned Jo’s book and I was angry at her as well but she kept apologizing and tbh I just see it as a sisterly fight.

Also she is so funny in Good Wives IMO.

“Jo would turn up her naughty nose at some of the finest, because she has no soul for art” (Alcott)

Ate her ass up 😭

#louisa may alcott #amy march #little women #good wives #Jo March #Meg march #marmee march #classic literature #classic lit #classic #books and reading #bookworm #opinion #books

[autumnrose11]

Jo looked up and Jo looked down, then said slowly, with sudden color in her cheeks. ‘It may be vain and wrong to say it, but—I’m afraid—Laurie is getting too fond of me.’ ‘Then you don’t care for him in the way it is evident he begins to care for you?’ And Mrs. March looked anxious as she put the question. ‘Mercy, no! I love the dear boy, as I always have, and am immensely proud of him, but as for anything more, it’s out of the question.’ ‘I’m glad of that, Jo.’ ‘Why, please?’ ‘Because, dear, I don’t think you suited to one another. As friends you are very happy, and your frequent quarrels soon blow over, but I fear you would both rebel if you were mated for life. You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.’ — Little Women, Chapter 32

This conversation between Jo and Marmee says it all about why Jo is not a good fit for Laurie. On paper, they are perfect. Both great friends, both with common interests, both get along like a house on fire. But there is a boundary between friends and lovers that is a huge line to cross. To Jo, Laurie becoming her husband would taint their friendship. Marrying him would destroy the very reason they are friends.

To quote the novel, she understands him as well as if she had been a boy herself. Jo is friends with Laurie because there is no romance between them. She can be herself with him with no expectation of ever falling in love with him, because she knows it’s never going to happen. She treasures their friendship so much because he is a kindred spirit to her own. They are twin flames, not soulmates.

At the time the book was published, readers were clamouring for Jo and Laurie to get together. Louisa May Alcott refused, and had Marmee explain why. They are simply too similar and too different, both in the wrong ways. They are highly compatible as friends, not as lovers. There’s no sense of them complementing one other — I think Jo’s right when she says they’d make each other explode. I don’t think they would have worked well at all as husband and wife; their marriage would have been a series of explosions and eruptions and their friendship would have been shattered. Somehow, Jo knows this instinctively. She knows marriage to Laurie is a bad idea, and at this point in her life, she doesn’t want to be married to anyone. Jo is headstrong and impulsive in many ways, but she knows her own mind as well as her heart. In this respect, she has the maturity and foresight to realise what Laurie does not (yet): Sometimes, love can taint friendships to the extent of leaving it permanently damaged.

#Little Women #Jo March #Josephine March #Laurie Laurence #Theodore Laurence #Theodore Laurie Laurence #Louisa May Alcott #Little Women meta #Good Wives

[asimplelittlememory]

The Little Women series by Louisa May Alcott

I love these books 

#click for credit #pinterest #little women #good wives #little men #jo's boys #louisa may alcott #light academia #romantic academia #classic literature #literature #massachusetts #pink

[justmeandmyships]

Emotionally I live in this moment:

"Amy did not know why he looked at her so kindly, nor why he filled up her book with his own name, and devoted himself to her for the rest of the evening, in the most delightful manner"

#but Laurie never loved her #my babies #otp #amy x laurie #amy & laurie #little women #good wives #it's so funny how he filled the book #was like there's no way I'm going to let you dance with anyone else but me #lmao #I can imagine the other guys in that party wanting to kill Laurie #lol #you gotta love my boy #theodore laurence #amy march #laurie laurence #Laurie

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Daisies Bracket !

Round 1 Poll 3

#botanic tournament #tournament polls #daisies bracket #daisy johnson #agents of shield #agents of s.h.i.e.l.d. #marvel #marvel comics #skye johnson #skye aos #aos #shield #s.h.i.e.l.d. #daisy brooke #louisa may alcott #little women #little men #good wives #jo's boys

[eva-eyre]

hot take: none of the march sisters should have gotten with laurie! i felt like he was just with amy because she was the last option, and i really think amy should’ve gotten the chance to find real love, too. not that i am against their relationship, but it felt oddly… superficial, in a sense

#eva reads #little women #good wives #louisa may alcott #book talk #classic lit #classic literature #american literature #amy march #teddy laurence #theodore laurence #laurie laurence

[shabby-chic-doll]

#pink #baby pink #roses #floral #flowers #tea #teapot #antiques #vintage #shabby chic #aestethic #cute #girly #feminine #soft #delicate #sweet #books #book #good wives #louisa may alcott #little women #femininity #coquette #grandmacore #aesthetic #soft aesthetic

[sparklygraves]

Jo looked up and Jo looked down, then said slowly, with sudden color in her cheeks. "It may be vain and wrong to say it, but I'm afraid Laurie is getting too fond of me." "Then you don't care for him in the way it is evident he begins to care for you?' And Mrs. March looked anxious as she put the question. "Mercy, no! I love the dear boy, as I always have, and am immensely proud of him, but as for anything more, it's out of the question." "I'm glad of that, Jo." "Why, please?" "Because, dear, I don't think you suited to one another. As friends you are very happy, and your frequent quarrels soon blow over, but I fear you would both rebel if you were mated for life. You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love."

Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives

#i was wondering the same #tho im obsessed with them #meditations on what makes a good partnership #good wives #jo march #theodore laurence #little women #jo x laurie #laurie x jo #marmee