A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories | Avery and Augustine
Sharing Louisa May Alcott’s A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories in honor of her birthday this week. Does anyone else like to watch Little Women around this time of the year? I try to watch it at least once during the month of December.
“A Merry Christmas collects the treasured holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott, from the dearly familiar Yuletide benevolence of Marmee and her 'little women' to the timeless 'What Love Can Do,' wherein the residents of a boarding house come together to make a lovely Christmas for two poor girls. Wildly popular at the time of their publication—readers deluged Alcott with letters demanding sequels—and drawing on Alcott’s family and experiences in the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements, these stories have the authentic texture and detail of Christmas in nineteenth-century America, while their emphasis on generosity and charity make them timeless embodiments of the Christmas spirit.”
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