Louisa M. Alcott
Rose In Bloom. A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"
Hardcover
(Little, Brown & Co. Jan. 1, 1903)
Preface reads,"As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone 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"