Do you know what book is this scene from? Please, help!

[BloomingRose]

So, I've got a problem.
I know I've read about this scene, but I can't remember what book it was. Help me remember please!
I'm sure it's settled in the Victorian times more or less, and in this scene, there's a group of women (some younger and some older or married) that discuss women's rights. One of the youngest says they should get more rights, and then I think there's a discussion about the things women do when they get married (like taking care of the husband, doing the chores,...), and one of the young ladies probably says she wants to be a good wife. This all happens while they're knitting or doing some kind of work (because I remember some 'baskets' were mentioned), and they are sitting outside a house, in the garden. I think there's something else going on while they're talking (like children playing on the background, or some male characters playing a sport).
Maybe it's not a 100% like that, but this is what I remember the most.
Help me if you can,
Thank youuuu!

[kiki1982]

Well, I seem to remember seeing such a scene in Road to Avonlea. I have never read the books the 7 season-series was based on, but they were by one Lucy Maud Montgomery and were about Prince Edward Island in Canada around about the 1900s.

The scene featured a group of women and children outside on their weekly tea-afternoon, making a patch work quilt.

Maybe that's a start?

[wessexgirl]

Wasn't there something similar in The Awakening by Kate Chopin? I could be remembering it wrongly though. I'm afraid I never finished the book.

[morgana]

Isn't it "Jo's Boys", by Louisa May Alcott?