Chapter 9: Meg Goes to Vanity Fair
Marmee: 'better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands.'
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The novel's tension between female ambition and domestic ideology is its richest theme, with Marmee famously declaring better to be happy old maids than unhappy wives.
Chapter 28: Domestic Experiences
Meg's marriage to John Brooke and the famous jelly-pot disaster.
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