The Quiet Little Woman: A Christmas Story
Everything aboutThe Quiet Little Woman: A Christmas Storyby Louisa May Alcott is heartwarming, starting with the extraordinary tale of its origin. Alcott wrote the story for three girls who emulatedLittle Women's March sisters by founding their own literary publication, but the magazine was lost for many years; this story is now being published in book form for the first time.The Quiet Little Womantells the story of Patty, a young girl living hopelessly in an orphanage, who is rescued at Christmas time by a kindly woman named Aunt Jane. Also collected in this small, beautiful (and not coincidentally, Christmas stocking-size) volume are two of Alcott's other holiday stories; one of them, "Rosa's Tale," is a really lovely fable about a horse who speaks at midnight on Christmas Eve.