Join the MFAH for good books and great conversations! The two MFAH house museums host a discussion series about books on life in America and Europe in the 1700s and 1800s. Meeting alternately at Rienzi and Bayou Bend, this book club offers free discussions each month. To reserve your seat, call 713.639.7800 or 713.639.7759.

August Selection
Eight Cousins ​by Louisa May Alcott

In August, the book club explores fiction that was popular in the United States during the late 1800s. Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott, tells the story of recently orphaned Rose Campbell, who goes to Massachusetts to live with her extended family, which includes six aunts, seven male cousins and an uncle with avant-garde views about the proper upbringing of females. Released in the years following Alcott’s famous Little Women, the novel Eight Cousins offers a vivid snapshot of the life and environs of New England during the mid-19th century.

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