Aunt Jo's Scrap-bag: Volume 2
Louisa May Alcott
Jan 1890 · Roberts Brothers
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208
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As grandmothers rummage their piece-bags and bundles in search of gay odds and ends with which to fill the little stockings that hang all in a row on Christmas Eve, so I have gathered together some stories, old and new, to amuse the large family that has so rapidly and beautifully grown up about me. I hope that when they promenade in nightcaps and gowns to rifle the plump stockings, the little ôdearsö will utter an ôOh!ö of pleasure, and give a prance of satisfaction, as they pull out this gift from Aunt JoÆs scrap-bag. - Louisa May Alcott, Christmas Holidays, 1871-1872 Contents: JimmyÆs Cruise in the Pinafore The DollsÆ Journey From Minnesota to Maine Morning-Glories Clams Little Marie of Lehon RosaÆs Tale Dandelion How They Camped Out What Becomes of the Pins NellyÆs Hospital An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving KateÆs Choice Autobiography of an Omnibus Roses and Forget-Me-Nots TessaÆs Surprises My Boys A Happy Birthday
About the author
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Two years later, she moved with her family to Boston and in 1840 to Concord, which was to remain her family home for the rest of her life. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a transcendentalist and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott early realized that her father could not be counted on as sole support of his family, and so she sacrificed much of her own pleasure to earn money by sewing, teaching, and churning out potboilers. Her reputation was established with Hospital Sketches (1863), which was an account of her work as a volunteer nurse in Washington, D.C. Alcott's first works were written for children, including her best-known Little Women (1868--69) and Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871). Moods (1864), a "passionate conflict," was written for adults. Alcott's writing eventually became the family's main source of income. Throughout her life, Alcott continued to produce highly popular and idealistic literature for children. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), Under the Lilacs (1878), and Jack and Jill (1881) enjoyed wide popularity. At the same time, her adult fiction, such as the autobiographical novel Work: A Story of Experience (1873) and A Modern Mephistopheles (1877), a story based on the Faust legend, shows her deeper concern with such social issues as education, prison reform, and women's suffrage. She realistically depicts the problems of adolescents and working women, the difficulties of relationships between men and women, and the values of the single woman's life.
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