A Country Christmas

A Country Christmas

by

Louisa May Alcott

ebook
Published 2005 by ebooksonthe.net
ISBN97815943

About the Author:

Louisa May Alcott's career as an author began with poetry and short stories that appeared in popular magazines. In 1854, when she was 22, her first book Flower Fables was published. A milestone along her literary path was Hospital Sketches (1863) based on the letters she had written home from her post as a nurse in Washington, DC as a nurse during the Civil War.

When Louisa was 35 years old, her publisher Thomas Niles in Boston asked her to write "a book for girls." Little Women was written at Orchard House from May to July 1868. The novel is based on Louisa and her sisters’ coming of age and is set in Civil War New England. Jo March was the first American juvenile heroine to act from her own individuality; a living, breathing person rather than the idealized stereotype then prevalent in children’s fiction.

In all, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories. She died on March 6, 1888, only two days after her father, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.

My thoughts:

If your are familiar at all with the Author's books you will enjoy A Country Christmas. The story begins with a letter from one Miss Sophie Vaughan to her friend Emily. She invites her to spend Christmas with her in the country with her Aunt Plumy and her cousins Saul and Ruth. An author and artist, Randall, is also joining them. Sophie decides to leave the ways of the city behind and have an old fashioned country Christmas. I enjoyed being reminded of simpler times. My family and I have a tradition of choosing a different country each year to learn about and adopt their customs for the evening. After reading this book I thought it just might be delightful to celebrate our own country Christmas one year. I enjoyed the story very much.


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