As a kid I probably would have liked it, since I was into goody-two-shoes books like All of a Kind Family, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Little House on the Prarie. But I'm not a kid, and it was dull dull dull. 
 The best parts where where the author clearly inserted her own opinions on things without much of a sermon such as the writing/publication process, the lives of spinsters, and the subtleties women had to resort to in order to get things done their way in a time when men ruled the house.