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Title: Rose in Bloom

A Sequel to 'Eight Cousins'

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Release Date: October 21, 2012 [eBook #41127]

Language: English

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ROSE IN BLOOM.

A SEQUEL TO

"EIGHT COUSINS"

BY

LOUISA M. ALCOTT,

AUTHOR OF "LITTLE WOMEN," "AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL," "LITTLE MEN,"
"HOSPITAL SKETCHES," "AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG," "WORK,"
"EIGHT COUSINS," ETC.


WITH ILLUSTRATION.





BOSTON:

ROBERTS BROTHERS.

1876.

Copyright, 1876,
By Louisa M. Alcott.

Cambridge:
Press of John Wilson & Son.

PREFACE.

As authors may be supposed to know better than any one else what they intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say that there is no moral to this story. Rose is not designed for a model girl: and the Sequel was simply written in fulfilment of a promise; hoping to afford some amusement, and perhaps here and there a helpful hint, to other roses getting ready to bloom.

L. M. Alcott.

September, 1876.

CONTENTS.