Download or read book Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair (Annotated and Illustrated) written by Louisa May Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-06 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors."Mountain-laurel and Maidenhair" is one of Louisa May Alcott's longer short stories. It features an all-female cast, focusing on two young women, named Emily and Becky. Emily is too fragile to do much of anything. Because of this unwanted physical idleness, her mental attitude is somewhat idle too. Becky is the epitome of a dutiful nineteenth-century maiden, working in the kitchen, doing housework, etc., and she neither complains nor tires of it. These two opposite-natured women become friends.