Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag

by Louisa May Alcott

Overview

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag is a wonderful collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott, the author of such classics as Little Women, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Little Men, and Hospital Sketches. These are stories that were written with the intent to both entertain the whole family and to fill young minds with wonder and delight.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633556997
Publisher:	Start Publishing LLC
Publication date:	09/03/2014
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	113
Sales rank:	320,798
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).[1] Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults that focused on spies and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted many times to the stage, film, and television.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. All her life she was active in such reform movements as temperance and women's suffrage.[3] She died from a stroke, two days after her father died, in Boston on March 6, 1888.

Table of Contents

MY BOYS.

TESSA'S SURPRISES.

BUZZ.

THE CHILDREN'S JOKE.

DANDELION.

MADAM CLUCK AND HER FAMILY.

A CURIOUS CALL.

TILLY'S CHRISTMAS.

MY LITTLE GENTLEMAN.

BACK WINDOWS.

LITTLE MARIE OF LEHON.

MY MAY-DAY AMONG CURIOUS BIRDS AND BEASTS.

OUR LITTLE NEWSBOY.

PATTY'S PATCHWORK.